For those that helped... I found my problem, and solution (sort of). It seems that the HP JetDirect EX's BootP client doesn't agree with Sustainable Softwork's DHCP server built into IPNetRouter. Once I moved my Win2k machine to a private lan, and setup the DHCP server on it, the JetDirect EX came to life quite nicely. It gets its IP address and runs very happily doing everything it should do. I would think that this problem might be fixed in a later firmware version, but in order to upgrade the firmware, I need a Flash SIMM for the JDEX. So unless someone on this list has one (or two since I have two of these things) and wants to give it to me for dirt cheap (free?), then I can't use these things on my network, and I just killed a day to find that out. So thanks for all the help everyone gave me. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>