thanks testdirector, [first the non-technical stuff] {salary?= nada; professor ko sasto khetala tyo ni civil engg ko manchhe + jati bujhe ni bujhi nasaknu lagyo ra ta shiva_bhakti *marga ma lagya :-)}; [technical stuff] Main() /*the box mainly hosts a smb unit, db (MySQL), "secured" html/php pages in apache, and phpBB accessible to proper authenticated users*/ { the room (office) has a musuem-full of machines interconnected thro a router and a couple of switches. so, i set up eth0 hooked to a direct static IP address-wala at the wall-port for the outside world, and eth1 to the local LAN switch (connected to router) for the LAN. when sth goes crazy, my windows' legacy tells me to restart it and when i do that, the boot-up msg shows (not always) "unable to bring up ethernet interface eth0 .....[FAILED]. " when i check the boot-log in /var/log...whatever (i m away now), i find the same message is logged but nothing more. Then i goto the GNOME desktop GUI under root login, and in the menu ..Network Devices>>choose eth0 and click "activate" and presto...its up and running again. just for fun, i try to "activate" eth1 and it says "unable to bring up ..." but it is already up since boot and does not make any difference. Initially it was just smooth, it just began to happen after i yum-med once, it asked me to restart and the "rog lage jasto chha". And one more thing, the indicator lamp for that port/NIC in the switch shows error signal while the computer is booting and eth0 is going to be down- boot hunda hundai bhavisyabani garchha}; Unicode_wala() {Some of the Linux bhaiyas in comp.cs.ca have suggested me that it might have been weird because the system is 64bit wala, and that i should go for FC4-32 wala binaries because they say some applications/API/SO's (i never heard about "YES OH" in windows, btw) are only for 32 bit, and i m seriously contemplating that too because as i have heard FC4 has by default this unicode thing as well as this "Xen" thing which will let me (well, apparently) as well as the desis to access it from anywhere and fix problems. Hope you will give me a cool advice.}; Anyway, please lemme know if i can write those "shiva-puran" and alike from a fedora environ, that would be really cool... thanks again;