> Is there a simplified version of this I can do? I don't want to abandon > the ifcfg scripts altogether, I just want this to come up properly at boot > time. I'm not sure how to do it using the ifcfg* scripts (the main reason I dropped them) so unless you want to add the entry into rc.local I'm no help there. > > > While we're on the subject, how do you flush the routing table? I do a > > 'route -f' and it just returns the help screen telling me that a 'route > > -f' should do the trick. Odd. > > > > I do: > > ipchains -F input > ipchains -F output > ipchains -F forward > > Unless you have one chain which has no name (impossible) `ipchains -F' > won't do a thing. There is something vague to this effect implied in the > man page... It's my understanding that doing 'ipchains -F' flushes all the exisiting ipchains. Maybe I haven't had enough Mt. Dew this morning.