With several of the Dell machines we've had on site, some interaction between the hardware resources, the linux NIC driver and the switch resulted in the ethernet cards not being able to properly recieve DHCP assigned addresses. Forcing the cards full duplex fixed this problem, and has become habit for these machines. --Chris On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:03:17AM -0500, Robert Olson wrote:

I'm wondering why you have to force the cards to full-duplex? Did you try without that? I've never had to poke at them that forcefully.