aphro <nate@firetrail.com> wrote: : check your firewall .. that ipmasq package always blocks all : incoming/outgoing packets on my machines i always remove it. dhcp may be : starting up before ipmasq . Or, if you DO want to use ipmasq, remember to (re-)run the command 'ipmasq' AFTER dhcp get's the network info. As I understood it, this refreshes the networking info for ipmasq. Cheers, Derk