Re: Networking Broke on Upgrade
On Monday, May 21, 2012 5:39:53 AM dE . wrote:
> On 05/21/12 01:24, Casey Bralla wrote:
> > Sorry for the vague nature of this report. I'm not sure what the root
> > cause is, or the critical package, but a recent update to Wheezy/sid
> > testing has broken networking.
> >
> > I had been using a static IP address on 2 separate AMD64 systems, with
> > several NFS mounts. After doing a general update and rebooting the
> > system, networking did not start on either machine.
> >
> > Typing "ifconfig" listed the lo device only.
> > Typing "ip address show" yields:
> > 1: lo: (stuff I did not record)
> > 2: eth0:<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
> >
> > link/ether (MAC Address I didn't bother to recorded)
> >
> > The work-around is to use dhcp to assign the IP. ("dhclient eth0")
>
> Also try ifconfig eth0 up.
"ifconfig eth0 up" by itself did not work, but I was able to reestablish normal
networking by manually starting it with ifconfig and route. Then I could get
my NFS mounts working again. However, the settings in
/etc/networking/interfaces for eth0 are still beiing ignored. <sigh>
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Casey Bralla
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