Somehow at the installation I've choosed the option to reconfigure the network connection at boot time. Now when I have a broadband connection and the system works as my server I would like to get rid of this, but I cannot find where in the start up scripts it is run.

the rc is at /etc/init.d/networking - the configuration-files for your network interfaces are in /etc/network/. "interfaces" & "if-up.d/*" might be files you are searching for.

sl mritch.

Of course I did look in the /etc/init.d/networking script - but I could not find it there. I don't know if I was clear enough about what is that problem I am talking about - this is something that stops the booting procedure and asks for a new IP.

please send in your /etc/network/interfaces & some information 'bout your network/system-configuration. do you use dhcp? what was the thingy you think you choose wrong at installtime?
we'll surely need some info to help you out here ;-).

sl mritch.

I don't think my interfaces matter. But here it is:

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation
# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255

Basicly that was some configuration for some local network - but now I added dhcp and it reconfigures the IP - I run it after all the other network configuration (I just added another another script to /etc/init.d and S12dhcp link in the /etc/rc3.d directory). But it should not matter as since I just added that after I got broadband, and the process asking for the IP was working before that as well as now.

isn't your broadband ether? if you don't have that eth0 network you should commend it out in your ..rk/interfaces even if it don't hurt now. you sayd your ip-assignment through dhcp is alright.
what's your current network configuration then? can you reply that message about the question for a new IP address? and where in the boot process does it show up? (maybe it's not 'bout your network/routing). please send a route -n and ifconfig -a so i know your network. i can't envisage your network topologie right now.

sl mritch.

I think I found the culprit. It was the /sbin/netenv script linked to /etc/rcS.d/S40netenv.