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I noticed that for some reason some of the bits and pieces I had installed on my NSLU2 were not being restarted at boot time: notably dnsmasq, which is a Domain Name Server and DHCP server. I started using this just for fun, but found that after an NSLU2 reboot I wasn’t able to reconnect to the NSLU2. It turned out that for some reason the imac was being given a bizarre IP address, which wasn’t even on the same subnet as the NSLU2. In fact, IIRC, it wasn’t even a legal private domain IP address! Now, I have several things installed on the NSLU2: cron, inetd, portmap, appweb and dnsmasq. I had also installed mt-daapd at some stage. It turned out that mt-daapd was failing to load, and this was causing the script to bail out, without running the remainder of the items. I think. Moral of the story: ensure that you are only loading stuff you need, and that everything is running smoothly.