I have a Redhat 5.2 box that I am trying to setup in internal lan on for backing up to a local machine since my Provider charges for any bandwith going over the external IP's even though it comes right back to another server of my network. Below is the setup for the 2 nics that I tried, but when I try to start the second nic with "ifup eth1", it looses the route for the first nic so my external IP will no longer work unless I restart it which then takes the route out of the second nic. What am I missing? I hope someone can help me with this. BTW, the second nic is connected to an internal router. I am assuming that I can't just use a switch instead any easier. # cat ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none HWADDR=00:1c:23:d5:be:02 IPADDR=101.110.67.100 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=101.110.67.1 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet PEERDNS=no # cat ifcfg-eth1 BOOTPROTO=static DEVICE=eth1 ONBOOT=no IPADDR=192.168.2.151 GATEWAY=192.168.2.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 HWADDR=00:1c:23:d5:be:04 PEERDNS=no TYPE=Ethernet Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list