Dale, If I am understanding correctly, you've confirmed:
1. The Win98 box doesn't drop packets ever (ie. their equipment works) 2. Your equipment works (connected the laptop to the DachBox via a crossover cable and dropped no packets from the laptop to the LEAF router or from the LEAF router to the laptop.) This smells like an autonegotiation problem between their equipment and yours. What NICs are in your machine? After you try another NIC, I would give another type of NIC a shot. - Bob Coffman ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html