Thanks very much for the response Robin.

I am making some progress, but it still doesn't work :-(

I have tried simplfying the network (Windows Server 2003 (dhcp, audio receiver manager, wireshark), ddar, hub) - no improvement.

Tried using nc instead of telnet, and I can now get a sensible console session.

Killing slimrio and restarting with -v gets the message:

=> sending discovery request
sendto: Network is unreachable

Repeating with the -s flag and the ip of the slimserver gets:

=> sending discovery request
<= discovery response from <ip address>
No connection to slimserver

Wireshark shows the discovery requests & responses.

I'm baffled; so much works, yet it doesn't work!

Can you suggest any diagnostics I could do now I have a console session?

In particular how can I check the network configuration - I see busybox doesn't have ifconfig?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Tim