[Cialug] RedHat ES 4 - static IP's?

[David Champion]

I have couple of new servers with RedHat ES 4. During the setup process, 
  I configured them to have a static IP address. When the system booted, 
and again after I did a full up2date (600+ mb later...) they come up 
with a DHCP address. If I do a "system network restart", they get the 
static IP I assigned again.

The only thing I see odd is in the 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 (eth1 is is the first ethernet 
port labelled GB 1 on these Dell 2950's, and GB 2 is apparantly eth0 - 
but that's another story) - is  it has "BOOTPROTO=none". I'm used to 
seeing "BOOTPROTO=static". I looked in the RH knowledgbase, and a lot of 
the documentation doesn't mention "static" anywhere, but is is sometimes 
shown on other articles.

Any ideas on this?

-dc