\_ SMTP quoth Gary Nichols on 8/20/2002 10:39 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ That guy needs to lay off the crack pipe. \_ He's mixing up ip addresses vs mac addresses. \_ \_ On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Nathan England wrote: \_ > Then shutdown again, replace the nic, and boot up and that would \_ > fix it because the nic would loose the mac address of the cable \_ > modem. Err... I think it could be a braino. Perhaps "the cable modem would loose the mac address of the nic". YMMV. David