when i want to change network settings to take effect everytime it boots i edit /etc/init.d/network
hope you enjoy debian, ive played with a few rh boxes and they about drove me mad. nate On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Paul M. Foster wrote: paulf > paulf >Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked paulf >fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an paulf > paulf >ifconfig eth0 paulf > paulf >command. Naturally, though, I'd like this to happen on boot. I have the paulf >appropriate lines in conf.modules, but I have a feeling there is some paulf >setting somewhere in the init/rc hierarchy that I need to make to have it paulf >automatically load. In addition, it appears that the NIC card is not paulf >associating with a real IP address, only 0.0.0.0. Any idea how to fix this paulf >as well? paulf > paulf >Paul M. Foster paulf > paulf > paulf > paulf > paulf >-- paulf >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null paulf > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:25pm up 143 days, 10:25, 2 users, load average: 1.91, 1.76, 1.62