In addition to Geoff Shang's correct answer, it may also be possible to get your DHCP server to give you a fixed address based on your MAC hardware address. How to do this depends on who's handing out DHCP addresses. Sometimes this is your router, sometimes this is your ISP, sometimes it's another machine on your network. If you control your DHCP (either via your router or via another machine on your network), you can force it to give a particular IP address to your machine's MAC every time. Unless I'm setting up a multi-homed machine (where one machine has two IP addresses on the same hardware interface), I prefer to have the DHCP server do the work for me so all my DHCP administration is in one place rather than tweaking each machine individually. As far as I've been able to tell, DHCP doesn't have a graceful way of allocating multiple IP addresses for the same machine, so I've had to do that the way Geoff describes, by hand-editing the interfaces file. -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list