If you are in Time Warner land you shouldn't have to do anything. Potato uses the dhcpcd package (DHCP Client Daemon) Progeny/Woody/Sid use dhcp-client package. By default, you'll get pump, which has a tendency to freak out on renewing the DHCP lease. Hopefully pump has been fixed, but I'm sticking with the dhcp-client. If you're in AT&T land you'll have to give them the Hardware (MAC) address of your NIC before you can get online. Time Warner just uses the cable modem itself for auth and whatnot and avoids this step. TimeWarner will give you 5 ips, AT&T 1. Even if you have Time Warner I suggest going with a NAT box as their DHCP servers have been somewhat flakey in the past. (I think this has greatly improved, but I like having the NAT/Firewall box there.) Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org "We can learn much more from wise words, little from wisecracks and less from wise guys." --William Arthur Ward