Basically install your modem with the "ethernet" line on a normal hub; plug your Linux into that hub. Under /etc/resolv.conf tell the Linux box that your DNS is the Comcast Cable box -- probably 10.0.0.1 or something like that. Just keep pointing to their name servers: nameserver 10.67.110.11 nameserver 192.168.110.11 Then, you set your /etc/hosts lines like this 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 10.0.0.100 inside.private inside Make sure your network is plumbed so that you are on the Private NAT side of the cable modem; but make the default route "the cable modem." That should do it. -- WC -Sx- Jones | http://ccsh.us/ | Open Source Consulting