I am beginning to get very frustrated. Steve has been trying his best to help me, but so far we have not found a solution. I cannot get virtual ethernet interfaces to come up at boot. It seems to be something with the network script in inet.d that does not add the available virtual interface startup scripts to the startup list. I am running Mandrake 6.1 on the problem machine. I have RedHat 6 running on another machine with no such problems. Does anyone out there have virtual interfaces loading successfully at bootup running Mandrake 6.1 ? If so please contact me if you are willing to help me find my problem. Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.