Ok, so this is my first venture into Linux, and a pretty good experience it has been - until now! My initial intention was to setup a proxy that could block file downloads, control access room by room, have timed rules etc and Squid fit the bill for free ;) Anyway i have now managed to achieve this on a borrowed celeron 400 workstation with 256mb ram and a paltry 4GB hard drive, hooked into a hub with two network cards - one configured to chat to the internet router and the other on the local network. Installation of SuSe went without a hitch, and most of my time was spent figuring out how to configure Squid, and this beast has been serving the net out to over 200 stations for two weeks. Now i'm assimilating the original NT based proxy with a SCSI setup and P3-550 into a linux box, and i've had nothing but problems with getting the network cards to work! on the test box these were two generic accton 100MB types, whilst on the other they are one Intel Pro, and an integrated Intel wake-on-lan type of which has no way to disable it in the bios, nor as a jumper on the mobo which is a dual 440BX btw. I have managed to get them to a point where Ifstatus sees em and verifys them as 'up' and with appropriate ip addresses etc. BUT even tho the light on the card displays it is connected at 100mbits and there is the background activity of the network on the card, it will not ping any other ip address be it on the local network, nor the external side!?! I'm pretty much baffled by this seeing as it is using the same cables and sockets pre-linux testing, and i've tried removing the test box from the network to see if that will do the trick but it doesn't.. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com