i have a stable installation of real thin clients with a single ethernet device eth0 added to the ltspbr0 device i have noticed that adding the ethernet interface eth0 to the ltspbr0 bridge using the command " brctl addif ltspbr0 eth0" is temporary as the bridge is reset after every boot so to make the settings permanent i did following please suggest any different and better way of doing the same 1 . create a shell script named "ltsp_bridge" and place it in the /etc/init.d with executable permission ( script is shown below) #!/bin/sh brctl ltspbr0 addif eth0 2. create a symbolic link named "S98ltsp_bridge" in the folder /etc/rc.d/rc5.d ( command is given below) ln -s /etc/init.d/ltsp_bridge /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S98ltsp_bridge 3. reboot the server to enjoy permanent settings for the ltspbr0 based server. best of luck !!!