On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Andrew Mather wrote: > Something must have changed in the way the hosts file is generated at > install time, because I don't recall ever having to do that before, > but OTOH, maybe that just means my memory is shot ;-) If you take the default DHCP option, you'll get the behavior you saw. I believe that if you had assigned a static IP at install time, you would have seen the behavior you expected. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs