Hello All, I have a LAN of 5 machines, all running SuSE8.2 Pro. Each has 2 NICs - eth0 faces an ADSL router which provides an IP by DHCP and dynamically assigns DNS, gateway etc. eth1 faces the internal network and has a static IP. Each machine has a static hostname. SuSEfirewall2 is configured to protect eth0 on each machine (all running services) and the DHCP client variable is set on all machines. In all cases, eth0 is only used for internet access, I use the second network for 'internal' services (NIS, nfs, ...). Now, two machines report during boot that DHCP for eth0 has failed, but by the time I can log in ifconfig reports a valid IP address. Also, if I manually rcnetwork restart, eth0 reports DHCP failure, but an immediate ifconfig shows an address. In both cases the IP address seems constant - i.e. machine 'frodo' always has 10.0.0.14 So, can anyone suggest what might be causing this behaviour? The router provides infinite leases (at least, theoretically) so I'd like to be able to manually force one of these abberant machines to relese its IP lease so that a different IP gets assigned - my reasoning being that if 'frodo' says DHCP fails, but still recieves an IP (but not 10.0.0.14) I know the DHCP is working and that the failure report is a ghost. I hope I've made sense... Cheers Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg