> I tried this on a Debian system once and I had the same problem. From > what I can tell it doesn't like the virtual interfaces when it runs its > network script. On mine, I just hacked the network script to add > > ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.2.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 > route add -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.2.254 > > when it gets restarted. Then I can ifdown and ifup all I want to. Brian- Excuse my newbieness but what file did you edit to do this? ifcfg-eth0? Or did you just drop all of this in rc.local? ____________________________ 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/ ____________________________