>>> bevan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 02/23/04 07:56PM >>> >It looks from your post like you have eth0:0 configured but not eth0. >Is that really the case? (If so it may indeed cause unexpected behavior). Thanks for the reply. Nope, it was merely edited for brevity, here is the whole works: (note sharing IRQ3, if relevant) ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:2B:C5:0D:7A inet addr:24.29.1xx.xx Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.248.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1356 Metric:1 RX packets:1983455 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1031842 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:3925 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:204870620 (195.3 Mb) TX bytes:273818721 (261.1 Mb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x2c00 eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:2B:C5:0D:7A inet addr:192.168.100.2 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1356 Metric:1 RX packets:165700 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:135933 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x2c00 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:F8:22:7C:65 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1417905 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3795200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:67221 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:152940964 (145.8 Mb) TX bytes:1331099648 (1269.4 Mb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x4800 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:21522 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:21522 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >Can you share any of your network configuration info with us for >possible problem replication and debugging? eth0:0 was manually configured by me from the command line to talk to a cable modem and thus does not have a config file. ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.100.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 >(/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* for example...) # DEC|DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3] DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=08:00:2B:C5:0D:7A ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet DHCP_HOSTNAME=monotheletisia # DEC|DECchip 21040 [Tulip] DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 HWADDR=00:00:F8:22:7C:65 IPADDR=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet >Also, what version of net-tools are you running currently? net-tools-1.60-20.1 --