Liz Brosch TSH System Services Philadelphia, PA 19104 office: (215) 386-0100 x1144 cell: (267) 784-9166 I configure static IPs for each host as part of the post-install. Here is the simple script I use to change to static IP addressing: #!/bin/sh # replace /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 # to use static IP addressing, not DHCP echo -n "Switching to static IP address allocation..." (cat << EOF NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=xxxxxxx GATEWAY=xx.xxx.xx.x NISDOMAIN=xxxxx.com EOF ) > /etc/sysconfig/network /bin/chmod 644 /etc/sysconfig/network (cat << EOF DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx NETMASK=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx NETWORK=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ONBOOT=yes EOF ) > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /bin/chmod 644 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 echo " done" Elizabeth Brosch