Mark,
Thanks for the tip.
>You have to have the ifconfig installed somewhere in you startup
>scripts. You don't say what kind of nic it is, but presumably, it is not
>autodetected so the module for it is not inserted. I'd write a script and
>call it
>etc/rc.d/init.d/local.net
The NIC is a RealTek 8019 ISA card. I disabled the plug and play and manually put the Alias and Options lines in modules.conf. When I did this under Redhat 7.0 and used Netcfg to identify the IP address and network address the system kept the interface information between boots of the system. That is it was automatically starting the eth0 port without any manual intervention. After reinstalling using Redhat 7.2 I did the same changes to modules.conf and was able to get the eth0 interface working properly. I think, I'm not sure now I tried so much, that it was holding the interface information between boots. Then in trying to prepare the machine to be a firewall I disabled the services port<something>, sendmail and NFS as these are supposedly not needed on a firewall. Somewhere in the middle of doing this the system stopped initializing the NIC during boot. I will try the local script file but it would sure be nice to know what I did wrong.
Sarig
