It is [ok] during boot and I have internet access, when I restart network I get [failed]. Before I was statically setting ip but now I am using dhcp. At no time do I lose internet access, it just drive me nuts. Any ideas?

How are you restarting the network? With dhclient?

with the fc4 command service network restart. LOL, I shouldn't have root access on my own machine, but if nothing was messed up, I wouldn't learn anything. [root@dell jim]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:E7:6B:C4 inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::210:5aff:fee7:6bc4/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:26749 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:28941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:9492260 (9.0 MiB) TX bytes:4168062 (3.9 MiB) Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1400

See if the following works: # dhclient eth0 Your card has a static IP or 192.168.1.102 set , is this correct?

Well it was set to static, I have a home router, but because of my kids ps2 game, I had to put it back to automatic. dhclient eth0 gives me no access, then service network restart gives access back but says Determining IP information for eth0... failed. [root@dell jim]# dhclient eth0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2-RedHat Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP Listening on LPF/eth0/00:10:5a:e7:6b:c4 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:10:5a:e7:6b:c4 Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use Please make sure there is no other dhcp server running and that there's no entry for dhcp or bootp in /etc/inetd.conf. Also make sure you are not running HP JetAdmin software, which includes a bootp server. [root@dell jim]# cat /etc/xinetd.conf # # Simple configuration file for xinetd # # Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/ defaults { instances = 60 log_type = SYSLOG authpriv log_on_success = HOST PID log_on_failure = HOST cps = 25 30 } includedir /etc/xinetd.d If I have the ip set, I don't know where it is stored. I have use the route command as well as ifconfig.

[root@dell xinetd.d]# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default dhcp 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

I am unfamiliar with fedora, I think the tool you need is system-config-network to configure your NIC?