Sorry about the "j" - dvorak artifact.... Okay, let me try again. First, here's my (new) /etc/hosts file: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 mhrichter localhost localhost.localdomain #192.168.0.100 mhrichter mhrichter.adsl.irvine.sbcglobal.net ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 If I run ifup eth0, here's what I get: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:90:F3:D2:8D inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21e:90ff:fef3:d28d/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5557646 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:4 TX packets:3497153 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:7118384647 (6.6 GiB) TX bytes:413380509 (394.2 MiB) Interrupt:153 Base address:0xc000 With this setup, I can login to the DSL modem, which shows the following configuration: DSL UP Connection UP User ID xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Connected at 1536 Kbps (downstream) 384 Kbps (upstream) IP Address 69.234.16.38 IP Gateway 69.234.31.254 DNS Servers 68.94.156.1 dnsr1.sbcglobal.net 68.94.157.1 dnsr2.sbcglobal.net Mode PPP on the modem (Public IP for LAN device) Timeout Never Modem Information Modem Name SpeedStream Model 4100 Serial Number 20013A3E0A514 Software Version1.0.0.53 MAC Address 00:13:A3:E0:A5:14 First Use Date 2006/10/31 00:38:02 GMT Local Network Modem IP Address 192.168.0.1 Ethernet Status Connected In this shape, I can ping, say, google.com from the modem and get a response. But, when I run dhclient, I get this: # dhclient Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.5-RedHat Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ /sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for vmnet8 not found. Continuing with defaults. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions: line 78: vmnet8: No such file or directory Listening on LPF/vmnet8/00:50:56:c0:00:08 Sending on LPF/vmnet8/00:50:56:c0:00:08 Listening on LPF/eth0/00:1e:90:f3:d2:8d Sending on LPF/eth0/00:1e:90:f3:d2:8d Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPREQUEST on vmnet8 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 bound to 69.234.16.38 -- renewal in 291 seconds. And after that I can't reach the modem or the internet. If I run ifdown eth0 and then ifup eth0, I get the 192.168.0.100 IP address back, and I can reach the modem, but not the internet. (So I'm back on the Windows machine to send this.) This probably seems pretty basic to many of you, but I'm still a neophyte at the details of IP under Linux. IOW, I'm lost. None of this was any kind of problem before I reset/mangled the router. One other question: I notice that the router claims to be 192.168.0.1, but so does the modem. Could that be part of the problem, i.e., should I change the router's IP address to something else? I remember it was 192.168.0.2 before the fiasco.... Thanks again. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos