Ever since I upgraded to SuSE 10.1 from 9.3, I have had trouble with dialout. Users are all in 'dialout' group (kinternet babbles about smpppd running,etc, and right click options are greyed out except 'server settings').
Progress is being made, however. I set the network card (in Yast, network devices) to be "user controlled with network manager" and the knetworkmanager icon showed up (after reboot or by starting it with a CLI). Under the network manager, I can finally dialout and get a connection to my mail provider (long story), but it only actually gets utilized when I disconnect the ethernet cable.
How do I get the system to choose which network interface it looks at? Can I get the firewall to do this somehow by blocking the mail server name on the eth0 ?

why not just disable eth0

ifdown eth0

Then it won't use it?

Or you can configure the routing so that IP requests outside your local network get sent to the /dev/modem instead of /dev/eth0. Which I suspect is what you want to do... I don't know about SUSE, but many systems have a way of selecting which device is the default gateway; or, at least, for selecting the local modem as the default gateway.

Thanks, I didn't know what that command was.
That would be better, if I can find where to do it. (go ahead, say "NOOOOOB")
It's temporary until my new ISP gets their email server online, anyway.
Thanks again :-)