I feel like I am missing something obvious. here is my interfaces file:
# The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface #allow-hotplug eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 #force higher speed in spite of signal peak & dhcp #mtu 1500 iface eth0 inet dhcp pre-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE mtu 1500 and here is the result of ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:86:8C:92 inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1 RX packets:1135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:327004 (319.3 KiB) TX bytes:126844 (123.8 KiB) Interrupt:58 Base address:0xe000 I tried moving the auto eth0 line around, but that either did nothing or broke the network. Thanks again, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]