My server has had this "random" problem for some time now. It has two NICs. One for internal network (basic cheap card), the other to my high speed wireless connection (solid older 10Mb DEC card). The system runs along fine, no glitches, etc. and all of a sudden the internal network stops or stalls. No traffic can occur to the server, no pinging, no nothing. Most of the time, the external network works fine. If I go into the service configuration gui and I restart the network and then iptables - everything is back up and working fine. Any suggestions on why this might occur? Secondly, my command line skills for restart processes is weak .. is there a way to restart the "network" by a command? Or series of commands? There are 2 other businesses that access the internet through my server/firewall ... so when I travel I would like to be able to log in remotely and restart the network for the second NIC ... assuming the first one does not die on me ... The problem also occurs at times when I reboot the whole system. I restart the system and the network does not work. I go into the sys config gui ... restart things there and then it is fine. the boot log says everything started fine - no indication of an error message. System information: PII ~450 MHz 256 MB RAM RH7.2 Enterprise uptime ~ 48 days as of today on battery backup Randy "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr. ph: 218-385-3750 fax:218-385-3751 email: rclark at lakesplus.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030904/bcbe3bc3/attachment.html