pascal weller wrote: > ifconfig should know your ip as well ;) > > I use: > > inet_ip=$(/sbin/ifconfig $inet | awk '/inet addr/ { gsub(".*:", "", $2) > ; print $2 }') > > Pascal Thanks, I modified things to suit my system and everything appears to be working fine :-) Any ideas on how I could get my firewall script to re-execute after a DHCP client lease expires and renews? Stef