> "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> looks like http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=1784 this is fixed now. reinstall ifupdown then ifup eth0 --Jos