I'm pretty sure that the first part here is intentional. If a DHCP card is unable to find an address, than it isn't brought up at all. this isn't specific to RH7.3, as I've seen the same occur on 6.x& 7.2. How are you trying to bring the inferface up? if you're using "ifup eth0" then that will only re-attempt to get a dhcp address. have you issued an "ifconfig eth0 <ip.add.my.sys> netmask <net.for.cur.net> up" ? I think I've got that syntax right. that *should* bring the interface up on that ip until you bounce the system. (ifconfig on RH doesn't change the boot config, only assigns for current use) if that's what you're already doing, then I'd say this is goofy to RH7.3, in which case, I've done a lot on typing for naught. -chris On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Jay Kline wrote: > I have DHCP set up on my laptop, and when it cannot find a DHCP server, it > seems to "disable" the interface entirely. I can try and mannually assign an > IP address on the network, but everything on the network is still unreachable > (with the exection of my own IP). I checked to see if any iptables/chains > were set up, but that dosnt seem to be the culpret. The only way around it > is to set the interface to a static IP and reboot (or go to runlevel 1 and > back, which is almost the same thing) > > Any ideas why this is happening? > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- LINUX, because rebooting is for adding hardware! www.linuxsnob.com <-- a little linux humor, and a very little support.