Miller, John wrote: > > I have att in columbia heights and mine quit working this morning. I have noticed a lot of traffic across my modem even when the interface is down. > > I am running the dhclient and it still can't get an ip. Any thoughts on why? I am running on dial backup, very painful. > If you run "tcpdump -p -n -ieth0" when the interface is up and nothing much is going on, you'll see lots (up to 10 per second) of "arp who-has" requests, often more then one call for the same address within seconds of each other. All of the addresses being queried are those sharing the same local AT&T network gateway. So who's doing all the ARP requests? That same network gateway box. Yeah, it's probably broken, but have you ever tried to tell AT&T's tech support anything that wasn't draped in "windowsese"? As to getting an IP when your current DHCP setup stops working? I downloaded dhcpcd-1.3.22-pl1.tar.gz from http://www.tldp.org and followed the directions for building/installing and it works just fine now. Hope this helps, -S