I guess it is because of that CISCO problem http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-2003 0717-blocked.shtml I don't know if it is related, but I just spent 2 hours on the phone to activate my new comcast.net account using dhcpcd and opera on Linux instead of their braindead windows CD. I had to reregister since the attbi.com account finally stopped working as they are moving everybody over to comcast.net. Since it was such a pain to find out, I summarized it on http://micha.bloki.com/index.jsp?name=comcastLinux Cheers, Michael Will