On 6/22/05, Edward Dekkers <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > > what I'm seeing in the system-config-network gui doesn't 100% > > match with what I'm looking for. I'm not seeing NETMASK or > > BROADCAST mask. > > > > Try doing things the good old manual way by editing: > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 > > read: > > /usr/share/doc/initscripts-<version number>/sysconfig.txt > > for all options available to you. > > Regards, > Ed. thanks, Ed. that's a rather huge document, but I think I've got the idea. here's what I have for ifcfg-eth1: #D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet DEVICE=eth1 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=dhcp #BOOTPROTO=none|bootp|dhcp #which do I want? HWADDR=00:0D:88:37:FA:22 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 BROADCAST=192.168.10.255 only I'm a bit unclear about the BOOTPROTO setting. is that about right? thanks, Thufir
