loading programs on boot question.

[McBoon]

Well on the boot, it give an error saying that there's no netmask for my external NIC. But after it's finished booting, I can start it through linuxconf no problem. I don't even have it configured for the external NIC.

Should I stop the loading of the DHCP server on boot and have a script that does it after? I also have apache. Right now I have to start it manually every time. I'm sure there's documentation out there to say how to get it to boot automatically but i was wondering if I should put the script to load DHCP in the same spot as what I will for apache.

[SuperHornet]

None of you networking services should start before your interfaces come up.

Two places to check is /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/eth?

check your netmask in those two places.

to load servers automaticly edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add them in there.

Use /sbin/ifconfig to check your settings.
I myself find linuxconfig kinda flaky and don't use it anymore. Try Webmin (http://www.webmin.com)