On Sunday 11 January 2004 9:49 pm, Mark E. Donaldson wrote: > If both the Linux Box and the Windows box on the same standard subnet of > 192.168.20.0/24, and they are connected via a switch, then the packets > should never need to go through the router in the first place. This tells > me the switch is either configured wrong, or is faulty. Don't worry about it - we found a spare cable where it shouldn't have been :) Problem solved. Antony. -- Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. You'll feel much better about things once you do. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.