On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:11:10 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: The problem may be solved. Watching the packets, I noticed a DHCP nak. I therefore tried with a statically assigned address, and it worked. Then I went back to DHCP, and additionally filled in "Hostname (optional):". It worked again. The hostname may not really be optional for DHCP. To test this, I tried to empty the field, but every time I remove the name, it puts it back. Mike.