I think the "When..." condition is what's confusing you. For instance, SLIP? On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jamie Ostrowski wrote: > TCP/IP CH 6 - Configuring the Interface > > "When networking protocols work only with a single kind of physical > network, there is no need to identify the network interface to the > software. The software knows what the interface MUST be; no configuration > issues are left for the administrator." > > This doesn't make sense to me, because if I set up a machine with an > ethernet card in it, I still have to configure that interface. I tell it > what IP address to use. Even if I only have one ethernet card, and no > other interfaces installed, this is so. Why would they say something like > this? What do they mean that if there is only one physical interface it > doesn't need to be configured? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Houck thouck at thouck.com www.thouck.com