Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my cable-modem firewall -- I'm currently running SuSE 8.2 on an old P5 box, and I'm upgrading to 9.3 on a K6-2/400. SuSE installed ok, I've verified that both NICs function properly when connected to my local LAN, etc. The problem is that when I connect the external NIC to the cable-modem hub, it doesn't seem to get a DHCP address back, and I'm at a loss to understand what's going wrong. Here's what I've been able to learn... eth0 is the external and eth1 is the internal (I wish that I could switch them, but that's how it seems to assign them no matter what I do). dhcpcd from eth1 (internal) works fine, gets an address from my internal DHCP server correctly, etc. At boot time, it give a message (I didn't write it down, but from memory) "no address... backgrounding" [for eth0]. After booting, when I run "ifup eth0", I get something like this: eth0 device: Realtek Semiconductor Co, Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:40:33:52:4e:4e Running "dhcpcd -d" by hand gives me: dhcpcd: MAC address = 00:40:33:57:4e:4e From the logs, I see a lot of entries like these: Martian source 255.255.255.255 from 10.40.32.1, on dev eth0 ll header: ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 04 9b eb c4 54 08 00 Finally, from ifconfig, I get this: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:33:57:4E:4E inet6 addr: fe80::240:33ff:fe57:4e:4e/64 Scope:Link Does anybody have any clues as to what could be going wrong here, and, hopefully, a solution? I really need to get this working soon because my old firewall box is dying rapidly, and I'm having a difficult time keeping it running. I greatly appreciate any help! -Nick -- <<< Welcome to the real world. >>> /`-_ Nicholas R. LeRoy The Condor Project { }/ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~nleroy http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor \ / nleroy@cs.wisc.edu The University of Wisconsin |_*_| 608-265-5761 Department of Computer Sciences