I have a machine with 2 network cards. Installing centos 5 on it. I set up both cards with static IP addresses. activate on boot etc... One is e1000 Intel the other is onboard forcedeth (nvidia). After I reboot the forcedeth ifcfg-eth1 file is changed to DHCP. I use netconfig -d eth1 to set it back up and reboot again and the changes back to DHCP. Only thing to add here is the network card does work, however I get a dmesg output that eth1 has an invalid MAC address. Is that invalid MAC address changing my setup? I dont think it should. granted I'm still looking at finding a way to reset he MAC address or something but I dont think the ifcfg-eth files should be modified. This seems like a bug- that is the reason for the post. Great work with centos 5! Jerry