Re: eth0 not coming up after reboot
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 04:32:07PM +0000, Mitchell Laks wrote something
like:
> Hi,
>
> I did a install of etch using the latest release installer. It went nicely. I
| have one comment and a related question.
>
| As soon as I rebooted into my system after the upgrade to sid I noticed that
> the eth0 was not comming up!
>
> So I had to
> su
> and do
> ifup eth0.
>
> Then I rebooted again to check
> and again needed to do
> ifup eth0.
>
> What was wrong?
Euh, for some reason was 'ifup eth0' not called (not activated).
>
> I looked in /etc/network/interfaces and saw all this "cruft"
> (i hope that is not a bad word).
They are called "stanzas", see `man interfaces` for more information.
(When I understood you correct, then was "cruft" a good word :- )
> I saw
> ########################
> # This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
> # They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
> mapping eth0
> script grep
> map eth0
>
> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.x.x.x
> ##########################
>
> instead of what I usually see
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> etc
>
> So I simply commented out the "cruft" replaced by good stuff
> and rebooted and all was well.
> What was the problem? What does this new stuff 'add' and what wentwrong?
Frankly my dear, I can only guess (and ask further questions).
Please provide the output of
uname -r
from the computer we are talking about.
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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