You must have a DHCP server someplace in your local network. It's probably your Internet router supplied by your ISP. For those clients you don't want DHCP assigned, just give them hard IP addresses. - Greg -----Original Message----- From: Arindam Haldar [mailto:ahiam@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 7:11 AM Cc: lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl; netfilter-request@lists.samba.org Subject: [LARTC] Neighborhood Question hi all I have a query related to network neighborhood. all my clients(their network) can see each other on the metwork. the ip of the linux box is 10.0.0.1 & mask 255.0.0.0. and clients being given ip's according to their need for network ! how can i stop this ?.. thnx in anticipation... A.H _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/