what's behind the scenes of redhat-config-network-gui ?

[Aaron Bennett]

rhllist at assursys.co.uk wrote:

>
>have you got a KEY="YOUR WEP KEY" line in
>/etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-eth1 ?
>
>  
>
ahhhh.  In /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1, what I have is:

KEY="s:{MY WEP KEY}"

I changed it, taking out the s:, and it now works.

So, what is this "s:" in the KEY entry?  Where did it come from? 

-- 
Aaron Bennett
UNIX Administrator
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering