Hello, I had a working system setup. One Linux (SuSE 7.0), 2 win98se, 1 win95 machine and a win 95 laptop. I connected to the internet via a 56k modem and the Linux box shared this with the other machines (via masquerade). I now have a Cable modem that under win89 uses a dynamic IP address and DHCP for WIN resolution. To get this to work I have setup an identical nic card to handle the Cable modem. (I plan to switch to earthlink DSL when it arrives in my area so I figure the same setup will work with either with just a need to plug in the DSL when it arrives.) At this time I am able to get both network cards to work in the machine. However Yast2 will only access the first card even though it shows two cards in its menu. Yast1 shows both cards properly. eth0 is going to be the cable modem and eth1 is now the network link. without dchp client setup on eth0 BOTH cards come up and can be viewed via ipconfig. However Samba does not work nor does anything else seem to work. I normally use 192.168.0.10 as the Linux machine ip address. at the moment I have eth0 setup as 192.168.0.11 and eth1 is at 192.168.0.10. IF however I turn on the dhcp client via yast1 for the eth0 interface (Still has ip 192.168.0.11) then eth0 does NOT show up in the ifconfig. During the boot screen it does show loading dhcp client on eth0 however and has a timeout after a couple minutes. (At the moment I do NOT have the modem plugged in.) But yet it does NOT show a eth0 device under ifconfig. It does show the eth1 device under ifconfig however. I have changed the S05dhclient to S06dhclient in both the rc2.d and rc3.d directories per directions on the SuSE site. With the eth0 setup with dhcp client and eth1 using the 192.168.0.10 address it does work fine with samba. If I change eth0 to 192.168.0.10 and plug the cable into that card then samba also works then. Is the loosing of the eth0 from ipconfig normal when using the dhclient flag? My next step is to plug in the modem into eth0 and see if it will work.. I am using charter communications as my cable modem provider. Thanks! Rodney Fulk Greenville, MI USA elixir@chartertmi.net http://www.chartermi.net/~elixir