First a bit of background information. I am auto-installing SuSE Linux (multiple versions, SLES 8, 9.0, etc.) vi HTTP. During the autoinstall process I am using DHCP, ie when the machine first boots up it gets assigned an address. However, during install I assign the machine a static ip address, which is set up in the configuration file. Now the problem. After the sucessful completion of installation when I log into the machine, the network interface is not configured with the static IP address, but with a dynamic one. I can see this through ifconfig. If I reboot the machine, then the static IP address gets bound to the NIC and everything is fine. I do have the 'Reboot after Installation' set to true ( <reboot config:type="boolean">true</reboot> ). Does anyone have an idea why this is happening and what I can do to resolve this so that the machine has the correct static IP address after installation? Thank you very much, Jeff Crow