Jan, et al -- One little bit that I want to go back and cover here, with some extra added in... ...and then Jan Elders said... % ... % I had similar problems and solved them by disabling the wired NIC, enabling % the wireless, and changing the default route to the wireless. % Commands : % ifdown eth0 % ifup eth-pcmcia-0 eth1 % route add default gw 192.168.42.254 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth1 % (You can make a little script for this) % If I want to change to the wired NIC, I run : % ifdown eth-pcmcia-0 % ifup eth0 % route add default gw 192.168.123.254 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth0 Since the wired NIC on my new laptop is built in and the wireless is a card (I wish that I had built-in WLAN but that just wasn't to be), I will have to choose between TP and WL interfaces. Meanwhile, at home I want to be static so that other machines in my network can always find me, but when I drop in at an office or someone's house I want to be dynamic. How have other people already solved the problem of picking profiles with changes like these? Thanks again & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!