Dave, after reboot your OSA interfaces can be 'dead', because 1. problem in OSA-device configuration 2. just a missing gateway
After reboot invoke from the HMC-console lsqeth -p to check if OSA-devices are available and route to check if the default gateway is defined. And what is contained in /etc/sysconfig/network/route ? Ursula Ursula Braun, IBM Germany, Linux on System z development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390