frankly3d-centos wrote: > Reserved ip in 192.168.x.x range for CenOS 5 (Samba Server) > > loses samba clients due to eth0 losing it's ip. > > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:72:AB:98 > inet addr:169.254.66.122 Bcast:169.254.255.255 > Mask:255.255.0.0 .... whack, 169.254.x.x is the 'auto-IP' range of self assigned IPs used if a system can't reach the DHCP server. I wasn't aware Linux did this, I've only seen it on MS Windows.