<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> William Stephens wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1169212882.4875.3.camel@BILL.dl.cox.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 18:14 +1030, Darren wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Guys, This afternoon I had to turn off my Ubuntu 6.10 Server, all went well and normal but since booting the machine backup I am unable to see anything on my network and I am unable to connect to any of the services (ssh, samba, squid or apache) from any of the other machines on the network. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I am using static IP's... </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I gave up using static setups after breaking my machine multiple times trying to figure out why and to stop resolv.conf from being erased at reboots. May not be your problem but I'd look into it. William S. </pre> </blockquote> Thanks for the suggestions Jeffrey and William. I downloaded Knoppix earlier this morning and gave it a try to no avail either using static or DHCP, I'm beginning to think it's perhaps the nic itself, stranger things have happened. I'm going to put in another nic now and see what happens as I'm at a loss as to what happens. I'll report back shortly. </body> </html>