Yes, Janina that is why I suggested she use ifconfig and route for her static stuff. I'm not sure why anybody would want to use dhcp on the inside of a network (unless the machines inside are WINDOWS).On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > I may be wrong about this, but I think those Red Hat utilities > only work for one card and simple setups. When you move to two > nics and ip forwarding/masquerading, you leave simple behind and > the scripts won't help you anymore. After all, Linux is very > powerful on networking, and the scripts aren't designed to cover > all circumstances, only the basics for newbies and technophobes. > > > > >