Hey, Still looking at what I'd done to fuck up my ten minutes of a private network. Can't find what's wrong. Each 'puter pings all the 1.0.0.x's, ~&~ the W98 box pings the public address also bound to the Linux box's nic. But W98 won't ping anything else either via names or numbers. Oh, & I've killed & restarted routed as well. I find this odd: # /sbin/ifconfig | more eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:4F:60:E4:5F inet addr:63.249.19.72 Bcast:63.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2180667 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2139139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2347 collisions:43293 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1739687531 (1659.0 Mb) TX bytes:1171798495 (1117.5 Mb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xdc00 eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:4F:60:E4:5F inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xdc00 Shouldn't eth0:0 have the packet info after the RX packes line as well as eth0? Also, just to give it a shot, I'd stopped eth0:0 & assigned the .2 address to eth0:1, but there's no change. Meph -- A Fortran compiler is the hobgoblin of little minis. To unsubcribe send e-mail with the word unsubscribe in the body to: Linux-Anyway-Request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe