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Al, At 2/26/2009 07:19 PM Thursday, you wrote: >Plug in a cheap Linksys router, or some similar box, connect the PC to >the router and rerun the DHCP registration. This should register the >MAC of the router and give it a different IP. Of course now, the PC >will be behind a NAT firewall, but I wouldn't think that should present >a problem in most scenarios. Of course, brilliant! Matter of fact I pulled this trick once before for a user who needed a static IP for their laptop when docked on campus, and a dynamic IP for home. I put her docking station through a NAT router, gave the NAT router a static IP (that I got from MSU hostmaster), and let her laptop get a dynamic IP from the router. -- dkm