> I just got a new laptop, and because of the nature of it, I am on different > networks all the time with it. Some networks have DHCP (well, most do) but a > few do not. The few that dont all use the same subnet (thankfully), so I was > wondering if there is anything like what XP has for configuring the IP > address (ie- try DHCP if it fails fallback to an alternate IP address). I > know pump has some scripting capabilities, is this possible? dhclient has fallbacks that you can set, to assign a set of network parameters if a dhcp server doesn't respond. I used to use it when running OpenBSD on my laptop; and it does work. It just takes a (seemingly) long while to timeout listening for a server, and use the defaults. I got sick of waiting for it (which is saying a lot, since I'm normally pretty patient about this stuff), and just set up a DHCP server on my home network, so I don't need it anymore. :) Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com