paul neil poneildbiassociatesnet quoting paul oneil excuse asking old question ive running suse cable modem couple months 56 weeks ago internet access working rebooted noticing came new ip address worked fine work exactly cable company releases renews ip address merely setup system issue new ip addresses cusomters reboot computer take affect immediately caused internet disruption required reboot least network reload detected automatically taken care works dhcp client daemon dhcpcd pump automatically cable companies apparently reassign address leases run get away without daemon long enough make think dont need one ronan talking process running time root 422 00 04 1332 500 0318 000 sbindhcpcd n 999999 h cablemodem1 eth0 alright maybe coincidence ill wait see get another address irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie wed 14 aug 2002 125609 0700 ilug dhcp