Ben wrote:
'allow-hotplug eth0' means that eth0 will be brought up asynchronously when it is detected. However, automounting of NFS directories requires that the network interface is brought up by the 'networking' service. You need to specify 'auto eth0' instead.
I thought that might be the case, so I have tried 'auto' as I said I would.And the problem persists - with the ping in place, I get two exports mounted, without the ping, I get only one export mounted.
If you have any questions you would like to ask about my networking setup, I will answer when I can. As I previously said, it was pure Debian Squeeze 6.0.2, entirely configured by the debian-installer, but now with an edit to change "allow-hotplug" to "auto". I do not have resolvconf installed, all relevant hosts are listed in /etc/hosts.
bfn, J