Op 29-09-2006 om 11:18:53 schreef Jiann-Ming Su: > Perhaps this is a dhclient issue? My guess is the initialisation of the interrupt of on ethernet reciever part. It could be a NIC driver issue or even an APIC[0] thingy. Cheers Geert Stappers [0] Whatever the Advantanched Programmable Interrupt Controller is named these days.