I've got Comcast, and I have no issues with my internal network when Comcast goes poof. Are you getting public IP address from Comcast for all your computers, or do you have your network behind a router and you're NATing, or do you have some other setup? If you're home network is a private subnet, you should just be able to add that subnet to the hosts.allow and/or /etc/exports and be fine. Ie: /bigdamndisk 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw) -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us A password is like your underwear; Change it frequently, don't share it with others, and don't ask to borrow someone else's.