eth0 and 192.x.x.x increases each reboot

[thepoetwarrior]

Well, I installed a NIC to use that instead of the MB one, and its finally working as eth1, and the MB connection keeps increasing, started at eth2, now eth3, etc. At least the NIC Im using, eth1 has the same IP after reboot, so that might have fixed the problem. I've already successfully gotten linux server up and running on another PC so the only thing I can think of that is differnt was the hardware. Note: Use PCI NIC to solve some IP problems.

[lazypower]

The behavior you are referring to with your motherboard was common among some tulip module based NIC cards. I experienced this with a 2.2.x kernel and a Linksys PCI 10/100 LAN NIC. Needless to say, I did what you did, trashed it and got another.