Ok all, still have no sound from SB Live! 5.1, but that can wait. Am successfully bonding two dual PII266 machines via crossover cables to make a workstation out of the hardware I have 'round the house. node1 and node2 on network.com (192.168.2.0) can ping between eachother just fine on each machine's bond0 NIC (192.168.2.1/192.168.2.2 node1/node2). eth0 and eth1 in each machine are SLAVE of bond0 device. NIC (eth2) in node1 attached to network.net (192.168.1.0) via LinkSys switch uplinked to LinkSys Cable/DSL router. DHCP on router gives node1/eth2 an ip of 192.168.1.100. Forwarding turned on at node1 in sysctl.conf and route on eth2 from 192.168.2.1 (bond0) to 192.168.1.100 (eth2); have tried to go to router (192.168.1.1) as well. node1 can access internet fine... here now using webmail so can give root information. Here's my ipconfig -a: bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:5A:5F:02 inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3964 (3.8 Kb) TX bytes:13710 (13.3 Kb) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:5A:5F:02 inet6 addr: fe80::250:baff:fe5a:5f02/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2072 (2.0 Kb) TX bytes:7174 (7.0 Kb) Interrupt:153 Base address:0xe400 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:5A:5F:02 inet6 addr: fe80::250:baff:fe5a:5f02/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1892 (1.8 Kb) TX bytes:6536 (6.3 Kb) Interrupt:161 Base address:0xe800 eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:E7:68:06 inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:ccff:fee7:6806/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:572 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:646 errors:26 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:29 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:282502 (275.8 Kb) TX bytes:62779 (61.3 Kb) Interrupt:145 Base address:0x7000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2867 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2867 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3074785 (2.9 Mb) TX bytes:3074785 (2.9 Mb) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) What amm I getting wrong here? And, please let me know if ya need more infor. Thanks in advance for your help, GregS <>< gswallow@xxxxxxxxxx