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sorry if my post didnt help give any ideas.
No that is helpful. I wasn't aware of the possible loop back issue. I'm primarily a FreeBSD desktop user and this is my first forey into networking.
Last night I when I rebooted the gateway machine I could have sworn I saw it say that 32mbs of ram where ok, it's supposed to have 64mb! So I rebooted and it said 64mb. I opened the case up and took out the ram, two sticks of 32mb, and put in a 128mb. When I fired it up the machine began beeping. Turned it off and put one stick of the 32mb in. Started up and got the same result, a loud beeping. Turned it off took the 32mb out put the 128mb in the second slot, fired it up.....all went smoothly.
Upshot of this is I believe that the first slot that holds the ram is faulty. I'm now running it with the two 32mb in slot 2 & 3. I've been playing Diablo II which would normally hang within the first few minutes.
The next test will be that I will leave the machine connected to the net during the night with a few browsers open and see if it locks up.
Fingers crossed the mystery has been solved.