Thanks for your = suggestion when=20 I was moaning about my problems with Getnet. I've switched to = Deru, but=20 I've already got problems. As you would suspect, they don't help = you with=20 Linux, just Windows. I was able to get it working with a direct = connection=20 to my laptop in its Windows incarnation, but that's not much good. = I have=20 an old PC running Mandrake 7 that I was using as a firewall - it has two = NIC's -=20 so I can get Internet service on every machine in my network. = That's the=20 machine that doesn't want to work for me.

The problem is they = changed me=20 from a static IP (Getnet had that) back to DHCP (which I originally had = working=20 for my Qwest DSL service.) The device on the Cisco modem is = eth1. =20 That goofy eth1 wouldn't let me change its IP address with ifconfig; it = was=20 stuck at that fixed address. I finally ended up rebooting it, and = the=20 address was gone. I also set its eth1 script to include the lines=20 "ONBOOT=3Dyes" and "BOOTPROTO=3Ddhcp" as recommended in some article I = found in a=20 Google search. Now the trouble is that I can't change the routing = with the=20 route command. First it wouldn't let me remove the old Getnet = static IP at=20 all until I removed it from the "/etc/hosts" file and rebooted. = Now I=20 can't add a default root at all. For one thing, I don't know what = to use=20 for a gateway designation. I added "gateway1" to the "hosts" file = with an=20 address of "0.0.0.0", but I don't know if that's correct or not. = Then if I=20 try to say "route add default gw gateway1" it says "Invalid = argument." =20 (Which one?) That probably doesn't make sense anyway. If, on = the=20 other hand, I try "route add default dev eth1" the error is "No such=20 device." Not true! But the problem may be that eth1, = according to=20 ifconfig, has no IP address. But I can't set it to any specific = address,=20 because Deru's DHCP server is supposed to give us one. But how do = we get=20 that address? I vaguely remember something about the "dhclient" = command,=20 but that's lost in the mists of time (didn't write down the =20 parameters!) Also, it seems someone in PLUG told me I shouldn't = need to=20 run dhclient.