Just wondering, Did your setup ever work? If yes, does your 4 port switch have one of these buttons to select Uplink on/off? If yes, is it in the correct position? I have had this problem several times, and the cause has been someone cleaning up boxes and cables and accidentally depressing this button and changing its position. Gerardo Searching for the best free email? Try MetaCrawler Mail, from the #1 metasearch service on the Web, http://www.metacrawler.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html