I recall someone mentioning a similar problem to mine. I recomined the kernel and excluded IPX and Appletalk totally, erased their modeles form usr/lib/modules, but kerneld insisted of still trying to load them <arrg> Anyhow, from a usenet post the fix is: alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off In /etc/conf.modules. If someone has any insight on why ipx and appletalk are called net-pf-4/5 I'd be interested.. Now my ifconfig loads instantly! Jason