> I've been trying to get a Hurd instance to speak to my network; it > has not been terribly successful thus far, and I think what I'm not > properly understanding is settrans. I have this problem too. I usually have to ping localhost a few times, then ping another machine, then the gateway, before I can get a live network connection going. Hope this works. Don't ask why it does this, I have no idea. :) --Michael Bacarella