A ha! For the record I finally got DHCP working. In my case it was an auto-sensing 10/100 hub between me and the dhcp server that decided to stop working properly at 10mbit. Since my empeg is the only 10 megabit device on our network nobody else noticed. A power cycle of the hub fixed it.

-Mike
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EmpMenuX - ext3 filesystem - Empeg iTunes integration