Well with the help of a friend of mine we managed to determine that mandrake didn't 'like' the built-in nic. So I disabled the it and dropped in a 'new' nic card and re-installed mandrake and it works just great! But (and there is always a but) I can ping other boxes on my network but they can't ping this new box. I disabled iptables to no avail. What would cause this to happen? rpgoldman at real-time.com writes: > Try sending your /etc/networking-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, and /etc/modules.conf. > > Also look for information about the ethernet configuration in the > output of dmesg. > > You're right, that ':9' looks very troubling. > > r > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list