Hi, I'm currently reading chapter 13 of the RHEL Deployment Guide, and taking some notes. I have a few minor questions: /etc/sysconfig/network According to the doc: "This file specifies routing and host information for all network interfaces." Here's how mine looks like: --8<----------------- NETWORKING=yes NETWORKING_IPV6=yes HOSTNAME=fujitsu.zuhause GATEWAY=192.168.1.254 --8<----------------- NETWORKING_IPV6= -> I wonder if I can switch that to 'no', since I simple don't use IPV6. Will some apps mysteriously refuse to work when I do this? (You never know...) HOSTNAME=... -> this looks like a redundancy with information provided in /etc/hosts. So what is it for? Can it be left out? GATEWAY=... -> another redundancy, since it's also to be found in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<interface>. Leave it out if it's in the individual interface scripts? More questions to come, but here's a first bunch :o) Cheers, Niki PS: I've started on Linux with Slackware (7.1), hence a habit of configuring my system with Vi rather than some configuration helpers. Even if they do the job as good, it's just a matter of personal taste and habits. -- Dyslexics have more fnu.