20 seconds. I can see the terminal adapter trying to make the connection a couple of times with the lights, but it never stays connected. The machine this is on is going to be by firewall/gateway/webserver. It's a P166 with 32MB's of RAM. I'm running Slack 7.1 (no X) kernel 2.2.16 on it. I'm using a 3Com ISDN TA (terminal adapter) on it. I have a static IP both internal and external for this machine, but have not assigned them to this machine. I've been fighting this prior to my getting the static IP's with no success. I haven't tried assigning it the static IP's since I've received them though either. I've looked at a couple of websites on this, and they were saying that I need to compile in synchronous support for the card, but this is an external device. Does this still hold true for me to get 128 or higher connections? About 99.9% of the information that I've run into is almost entirely specific to internal ISDN devices, and as far as I can figure out doesn't apply to my situation. From what I've been able to figure out (with Bob's help), is that in my scenario I use it just like I would an external modem. I've posted a couple of times previously, but didn't get much feedback. I didn't have as much info the previous times though either. Anyone have some ideas where to go from this point? One thing I did try that I forgot to post was I tried this as a standalone machine with no network settings, and it did the same thing. NIC card was in when I tried it. Shawn