Re: eth interface with no IP

[Loïc Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr>]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005, Kostas Magkos wrote:
> Nothing I tried putting in /etc/network/interfaces works. The net 
> startup script always complains about missing configuration and of 
> course eth1 isn't started. As a temporary solution I added a 'ifconfig 
> eth1 up' line in /etc/init.d/networking but I really don't like this 
> approach. I don't think that it's even the right thing to do cause of 
> upgrade issues.

 I think you can use this instead:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
    up ifconfig $IFACE up
    down ifconfig $IFACE down

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Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
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