Hello, the lpd daemon does not initialize correctly and i cannot ping the loopback address 127.0.0.1 Any time i try to ping another host it only sends the first packet and after that nothing I cannot ping \it from a different computer either I am running red hat 7.0 eth0 initializes ok i cannot ping my default gateway at all and it is pingable from other computers. i also get this error on boot up when lpd is trying to start 'Get local host' Local host ip address unavailable! Any suggestions? thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/