So it was a missing semicolon in my config file.... DHCPDARGS="eth0" and I missed the semicolon at the end....sorry for the list noise... /brian chee -- ******************************************** University of Hawaii SOEST Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL) Brian Chee <chee at hawaii.edu> 2525 Correa Road, HIG 500 Honolulu, HI 96822 Office: 808-956-5797