On Saturday 18 May 2002 20:54, Fábio Rabelo wrote: - Don't worry, is more simple than you think . - My home gateway is a 486 DX4 100 with 48 MB of RAM, 2 Gb SCSI - and 3 3COM cards, one connected to my cable modem ( Ajato Brasil - fully DHCP no suport for Linux but fully fuctional ;- ) ), the second is - conected in a mini 4 port hub to conect my worksation and any machine - from my clients ( I'm work as Suport Mananger for some Publicity Agency ) - and the third is conected to my Power Mac 9600, in this board I'm setup - the appletalk protocol, my gateway runs Suse 7.2, with IPTables and - FW2 from Suse 7.3, DHCP server to all internal cards, named just for - comodity, ProFTP on internal and external cards, my IPs ? - 192.168.1.1 .... in first card - 192.168.2.1 .... in the second card, no problems, works fine at first ! - on the MAC all auto IP , gateway and DNS . - All this documents you have read is the "Apple Way" , but not the Only Way I installed netatalk, set my PB to use ATalk over ethernet, netalk is set to start when SuSE 7.3 starts (rc.config) and I have confirmed it is running, edited /etc/atalk/atalkd.conf to eth1, YAST 2 says my eth1 is active, checked cables, etc. but not frigging thing is happening. Sigh, Brian