On Sat April 12 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > You may want to read > /usr/share/doc/initscripts-<version>/sysconfig.txt - you will have > to scroll down a bit before you get to the network section, but it > explains the files, and the format for the route-eth0 file. (You > will have to create your own, because it is not normally needed.) Thank you, I'm just getting to this, and that was very useful. I don't think I would have found that without some help. So far as your comment on my other request for specifics about why not to do this, your "why complicate...." remark, I work for someone who has an endless capacity for complication -- sometimes useful, sometimes painful, but, that's the metric. Simply telling him this would be too complicated is probably not going to get me too far. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA