Thank you Dave Wreski and Don Becker for all your help in getting my network to work properly. I would have written a thank you sooner but I only get to this machine Thur - Sun. Thanks again . Jimbo. one problem that had occured was the requirement for a nameserver (even thought the network was local) giving abraham.localdomain a bogus nameserver allowed pinging in both directions. Why I had to do this when the hosts files where configured properly is a mystery to me. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.