On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ifup/down-eth0 are not valid commands. ifdown-eth is but does not work. > "basename: missing operand" whatever that means? You didn't get it quite right. Its actually ifup eth0 or ifdown eth0 (not ifup-eth0 notice the dash). Do this as said before: Allow the user to control the network device - add "USERCTL=yes" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 as documented here: http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-rg-en-4/s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html Then run ifup or ifdown with the proper interface name as argument. Normally for wired LAN it is eth0(eth1 for a second card that might be present) Regards -- Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury Fedora Ambassador sherry151@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines