David Katz wrote: > Thanks, I do understand that there is an internal and an external address. > I want to force my workstation to have the internal address 192.168.1.140 > so that my router will forward port 22 to the right machine - it's set up > to do that so that my windows stuff works. Can I make Fedora assign a > specific internal address? Because interally I'm not always at > 192.168.1.2; it seems to depend on which machine logs in first. Is it conceivable that your problem has nothing to do with IP addresses, and is because of a bad (eg old) entry in ~/.ssh/known_hosts ? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland