On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > At Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:54:36 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: >> Dave wrote: >> BOOTPROTO=none > > Shouldn't that be: > > BOOTPROTO=static My options (according to /usr/share/doc/initscripts-8.76.4/sysconfig.txt) are: BOOTPROTO=none|bootp|dhcp This was all set by the network panel (/usr/bin/system-config-network). I have an embarrassing admission to make - I just realized the system I was looking at is running fedora 9. I've noticed the same behavior on my centos systems, though. Dave