Hi All, I have three Linux boxes running RH7.2 and each one of these has two 3com Ethernet NICs. I am trying to do some routing stuff with these. Ethernet interfaces on these boxes shut down by its own if I do not pass the packet through them for a while. I am not able to understand why is it happening. One more thing when I use “ip addr show” it shows that interface is there , but ifconfig doesn’t. I guess that is because ifconfig shows only the interfaces that are up. Any help on this will be really appreciable . Thanks in advance, Nitin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/