On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 12:06, joel schaubert wrote: > > B) the NIC card is PCMCIA so linux startup fails to start eth0 because > PCMCIA hasn't been started yet, then delays init and suceeds later > on. This I think is normal, and does NOT cause any problems for non > vpn access. > I don't have answers for your other questions but this one is known. In the network configuration tool tell the system NOT to load the interface at boot time. Someone else on the list pointed this out to me a month or so ago. And I still think it is a bug. If you tell an interface NOT to start it should never start. Instead what happens when the pcmcia is started the interface will startup. I agree also this is not causing your VPN problems. I had a problem with Checkpoints Secureremote software a couple of years back. We found that only one DNS server could be setup in the policy. The way we found this was that DNS sever went down and none of our remote users could use DNS. At the time there was no fix for that. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered. -- Ring Lardner