The setup is ISP -> DSL -> Linksys Router -> LAN LAN igor: SuSE9.1 and W2000Pro abnormal: SuSE9.1 inga: SuSE9.1 and W2000Pro Igor and AbNormal are always on the LAN, Inga, a laptop, is on and off the LAN. I think, at least I hope, that I finally have got the router figured out. At least, all three machines can access the internet and each on the LAN can ping the others. If I understood the tech support person at Linksys correctly the router is assigning ip's to each machine as it comes up on the LAN. The CHCP network address server settings has the local DHCP server enabled with a start address of 192.168.1.100 and 50 addresses. When everything is down I always bring up igor first which should assign the ip 192.168.1.100, and, in fact, does. Next is the part that has me totally confused. Once igor is up I bring abnormal on the LAN and he should be assigned the ip 192.168.1.101. However, if I do ifconfig on igor I get: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:78:C9:1F inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:ccff:fe78:c91f/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:8175 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5014 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:9015344 (8.5 Mb) TX bytes:486525 (475.1 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:453 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:453 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:31789 (31.0 Kb) TX bytes:31789 (31.0 Kb) So I wondering where in this business is the Router's local DHCP setting being overwritten by what which results in abnormal being assigned the ip 192.168.1.102? This problem, and its' predecessors, have been driving me up the wall for several weeks now. Of course, it would help if only I knew what I was doing. My ultimate goal is to get the LAN machines talking to each other so that I can transfer files and use the printer which is currently connected to igor. I used to be able to do this before I had the DSL line and the Router. Hopefully, with assistance I'll be able to get there again. One final question, my printer is a HP DeskJet 612C. Is there any way that I can access this as a networked printer? That is, not directly attached to igor? Thanks in advance.