I am hoping somebody can help me understand what is going on here. I am finding the following messages in my /var/log/messages : --- snip --- Mar 26 11:42:29 tsunami dhcpd: No subnet declaration for eth0 (IP.ADD.DRE.SS). Mar 26 11:42:29 tsunami dhcpd: ** Ignoring requests on eth0. If this is not what Mar 26 11:42:29 tsunami dhcpd: you want, please write a subnet declaration Mar 26 11:42:29 tsunami dhcpd: in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment Mar 26 11:42:29 tsunami dhcpd: to which interface eth0 is attached. ** Mar 26 11:42:29 tsunami dhcpd: --- snip --- Since eth0 is the interface that faces towards my service provider and they dynamically assign an IP address to that interface - it would like to place something in the dhcpd.conf file that makes that interface non-authoritative. But I am unable to do this since they have a series of ranges that the IP address could be assigned and I dont know how to define this in the subnet stanza of my dhcpd.conf file. What do I do here? cheers, Noah