Cliff, With cox you get dhcp, unless you have a business account where you get dedicated ip addresses. Check your current ip address and make sure it has not changed. Sometimes when I reboot, I get a new ip address assigned and have to change the gateway address for the lan nic to match the new ip address. FrankM On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 12:18, Cliff Rogers wrote: > I have a box with ClarkConnect (based on Redhat 7.2 I think) installed > on it. It has two identical NIC's installed. I use it as a > gateway/router for my LAN. Today I suffered a power outage and when my > box rebooted it would not allow me access to the Internet. when I > checked the config file for the NIC settings it shows the same IRQ and > I/O addresses for each one. I have a couple questions: > > 1. For a box with *nix installed and is rebooted, and it doesn't > matter whether it was a power loss or a normal shutdown, is it normal > for it to lose the configuration settings for a NIC? Is there someway > I can fix this so that the settings are permanent? > > 2. At the next Installfest what would I need to bring with me so that > I can have someone help me verify all my settings? I would like to use > this as a router and web server so that I can park some web pages on > it. > > Anyway, I would appreciate any ideas or suggestions you may have. > Thanks, Cliff -- Frank Mandato