I am having some problems with an alias configuration on the primary interface of another box I am looking after (I did not build it). I have noticed a couple of weird things over the last couple of days and I don't know what to make of it. I noticed Monday morning, after a still unexplained reboot, that the alias on the primary interface did not come back up on its own. I think I solved this by adding the ONBOOT token to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 The problem which remains is that when i do `ifup eth0:0' I get: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device 160.94.101.75: unknown interface: No such device SIOCADDRT: No such device usage: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases <net-device> usage: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes <net-device> Any auggestions? The primary, which is configured similarly, comes up without issue...Should i not be using ifup to initialize this interface? ____________________________ Mike Neuharth ADCS Technology Specialist http://www.umn.edu/adcs E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/ ____________________________