diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index b0efa0add..85bd76226 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
  - Juergen Sawinski: fixed network.init and back-ticks
  - updated neon (0.24.4)
+ - improved ifup.sh and added the code to install it
 
 *) 2003-11-20 (2.0.0-rc2 - 2.0.0-rc3)
 
diff --git a/package/base/sysfiles/ifup.sh b/package/base/sysfiles/ifup.sh
index 3be9a087d..7036507f2 100644
--- a/package/base/sysfiles/ifup.sh
+++ b/package/base/sysfiles/ifup.sh
@@ -7,12 +7,14 @@ useage() {
 
 [ "$1" ] || useage
 
-if [ "$2"  = "" ] ; then
-	profile="`cat /etc/network/profile`"
+if [ "$2" = "" ] ; then
+	profile="`cat /etc/network/profile 2> /dev/null`"
 else
 	profile="$2"
 fi
 
-/etc/network/rocknet "$1" "$2" "${x#if}"
-echo "$profile" > /etc/network/proflie
+profile=${profile:-default}
+
+/etc/network/rocknet "$profile" "$1" "${0#/sbin/if}"
+echo "$profile" > /etc/network/profile
 
diff --git a/package/base/sysfiles/sysfiles.conf b/package/base/sysfiles/sysfiles.conf
index 2a56452d2..622648358 100644
--- a/package/base/sysfiles/sysfiles.conf
+++ b/package/base/sysfiles/sysfiles.conf
@@ -71,8 +71,11 @@ EOT
 	for x in $( cd $confdir ; echo rocknet_*.sh ) ; do
 		dst="${x#rocknet_}" ; z="/"
 		dst="${dst//_/$z}"
-		cp -v $confdir/$x etc/network/$dst
+		cp -vf $confdir/$x etc/network/$dst
 	done
+	cp -vf $confdir/ifup.sh sbin/ifup ; chmod +x sbin/ifup
+	ln -sf ifup sbin/ifdown
+	
 
 	echo "Create /etc/issue, /etc/issue.ansi and /etc/issue.net ... "
 	rocktxt="ROCK Linux $rockver $arch"