On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 16:45 -0800, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been running amd64 (unstable) without too much trouble for a couple of > months on my mail server, but there is one major problem, and a recent > update did not fix this problem: > > When the system boots it screws up the network interfaces. There are two > interfaces, one going to an ADSL modem, the other for an internal network, > both configured with static addresses in /etc/network/interfaces. Usually, > one or both of the interfaces have totally wrong IP addresses and subnet > masks. I typically have to bring them down and up again manually by running > ifconfig. This seems to always work, but I then have to restart all the > services because they are still listening on the wrong addresses. If you have zeroconf installed, is your problem!! > > The same screw-up also happens when I run "/etc/init.d/networking start" > manually. Often, this script seems to hang for a few minutes after it has > processed the first interface, and one or both interfaces end up with weird > random addresses. > > It seems as if something is getting badly confused, perhaps parsing the > interfaces file? > > Any idea what this might be? Note, this was initially installed as testing, > then upgraded to unstable. > > Thanks, > > Joachim > > -- > work: joachima@netacquire.com (http://www.netacquire.com) > private: joachim@kraut.ca (http://www.kraut.ca) > > -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Francesco Cecconi ' |BrAnD| ' : :' : The Universal O.S. | brand80@users.sourceforge.net `. `'` | GPG Key ID: 11F6E468 `- | JID brand80@jabber.linux.it
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