I'm on the wrong laptop at the moment, or I'd give you the details. Yes you can set it all up at your end, BUT you don't need to reboot, this is Linux after all! YOu can take down your networking, change the profile and bring it back up again. This is what cardmgr does with schemes. Here is an outline of what happens: 1) network connection is up and running in a given profile - say "home" 2) cardctl scheme work 3) network connection is taken down, and brought back up, with appropriate network configuration cardctl scheme home would do the opposite It wasn't clear from your question whether you are using a PCMCIA network adapter. If not, you could still accomplish the same thing with some scripts, if there isn't already a tool out there. Take a look on freshmeat.net for "network profiles" or something. Stew Benedict
From your kind reply am I right in assuming that I can boot one way and have dhcpd running and get my login that way and then boot t'other way and be back as I am now. Sorry for my ignorance.