o behave properly. Is there something I can specify in my lilo.conf to force a valid MAC address before DHCP has a chance to broadcast for an IP? Will that even solve the problem? I've had the same problem on a previous install of Mandrake, and I believe my Gentoo install failed for this same reason. TIA, Bill l o n g m a n a t s h a r p l a b s d o t c o m