>> I added DHCP via YUM(did this because although the Add/Remove >Domains? Are you sure you're not confusing DHCP with DNS? As Paul has suggested, DHCP, properly set up, should supply you with everything you need to get online. My set up (I'm the admin for the folks in my house) includes entries for routers subnet-mask domain-name domain-name-servers time-offset ntp-servers lpr-servers smtp-server And could include many more. You shouldn't need to supply anything at all. -- I bring this all up because now Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ``most reliable Windows ever.'' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ``the most articulate vegetable ever.'' --Dave Barry http://www.hacksaw.org -- http://www.privatecircus.com -- KB1FVD