After the recent set of suggestions about AMD performance, I decided to recompile my kernel for an "Athlon" system. The recompile has went fine (after a few false starts, etc.) and I can boot on the new kernel. Problem: I can not ping out to the rest of the world. I can ping localhost and the IP addy of the machine - but no where else. I finally ended up using the "Athlon" configuration file that comes with the RH7.2 release. That configuration file has networking turned on, etc. I have went into ntsysv and turned off ipchains and iptables just to make sure they are not blocking everything (but I do believe they normally don't start out with everything blocked). Yes ... the cable is attached and the NIC cards are good to go .. I can reboot in the original kernel and the network works fine. eth0 comes up without a problem for the new kernel. Any suggestions on what I may have forgotten to turn on? Or turned off? Many thanks in advance! Randy p.s. I did try and download the items suggested ... but permission was denied. The security type things on this AMD machine are not an issue for me - it is behind the firewall and if someone makes it that far that is the least of my concerns. "Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible." - Author Unknown ph: 218-385-3750 fax:218-385-3751 email: rclark at lakesplus.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20021008/c8bf868f/attachment.html