Well, if you can't ping the address, it certainly won't work. I thought you just weren't being given the prompt for logging in.

John



>I did what you suggested but still I am out of luck. I think the problem is that the IP 128.1.0.8 is only for internal use on their (customer) network.
>I think I read about it somewhere that some IPs are reserved for the internal use. Yet they gave it to me for connecting from internet.
>
>Thank you for the suggestion anyway.