On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 09:00:26PM -0600, Perry Hoekstra wrote: > My question is, what would prevent my firewall box from > grabbing an IP address from my internal DHCP server versus the cable > modem? Just make sure that your dhcp server only listens/responds to the interface that is not connected to your cable modem. Assuming that your cable modem is on eth0 and your network is on eth1 you would run dhcpd like this: 'dhcpd eth1'. This may differ depending on what dhcp server you are running. Chris