But X is working (if only as root) and networking stuff functions too, it can lease an ip if one of the other 2 machines is off (we only have 2 ips).<P>So here's the meat of what needs to be done: I ...

So here's my desired configuration: I want some number of IP's bound to one single adaptor. I can do this by aliasing the IP's without problem and everything works fine. The problem is that I only ...