Fantastic! Ifconfig now shows eth0 rather than dummy0: - io address was 0x2a0. Thanks, I would never had known to change that. tcpdump now showing host jenny/TCL unreachable, no other traffic showing. netstat -rn shows 192.168.11.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U eth0 tcpdump does show at the end "eth0 > arp who-has jenny/TCL tell TRX850/TCL (0:80:c8:78:42:bf)" after using lo to ping its own IP address. Thanks all. My problem has moved on and up. Jenny.