I have a cable modem, connected to a 4 port hub for my home network. The two most active ports are the ones connected to my linux box and my son's hub. He usually runs just his xp box, maybe another machine. Occasionally he hooks up 4-5 machines and plays games over the net with his buddies, all hooked up to his hub. When he does that, my linux box essentially loses all contact with the net. Kmail, konqueror, firefox, opera etc, all freeze up in my linux box, both under suse10.1 and 10.2. The maddening thing is that if i fire up vmware and start a windoze virtual machine inside my linux, it has *no* problem accessing the net!!!! There must be an explanation for this, but I know too little to come up with it. What do the gurus say? d -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org