> I called again later, told them I hooked up a brand new w2k machine with > a VMWare MAC address (tee hee) and they provisioned it, worked > immediately. why couldn't you use the MAC of your existing Ethernet card? or did they have that marked in their database as 'watch out for this guy'? how does VMWare come up with its MAC anyway? there must be some algorithm whereby it randomly generates one, and then tests to see if that one exists somewhere else on the network... Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700