Firm, >If I remember correctly, you can request from Hostmaster.msu.edu that a >set of machines be assigned a specific IP range from campus DHCP. >You may have to provide the MAC address of all DHCP clients involved. >That should resolved this issue. Thanks. Hmm, but what if a rogue steals an IP address from our assigned range for their static IP? How could we force DHCP to give our machine another address from our assigned range, but not the rogue's stolen static IP? Thanks, -- dkm