I downloaded the software 2.4.20 to build a new kernel on an alpha machine. It compiled and I have a working kernel. Oddly enough, after booting on the new kernel ... uname -a returned 2.2.20. Can anyone think of why this would happen? Also, I'm trying to get iptables to work. Within the directory 2.4.20 I can find ip_tables.o. How would I get this loaded into the kernel such that /sbin/iptables -L doesn't complain about missing modules? Regards, Marc