Best way to start eth0 without address

[Robb Aley Allan <rallan@helical.com>]

For what it's worth, I sometimes use 

    ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

and it seems to work.



Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong writes:
 > Hey everyone.
 > 
 > I'm using unstable, and I was wondering what would be the best way to
 > start up eth0 without a network address assigned to it?  I need this,
 > so that pppoe will work correctly.  Currently, I have the following in
 > /etc/networks/interfaces:
 > 
 > iface eth0 inet static
 > 	address 0.0.0.0
 > 	netmask 255.255.255.0
 > 
 > But on boot up, it complains like so
 > 
 > SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
 > 
 > There is no problem, since this does what I want, but I was wondering
 > whether there is a cleaner way to do this.
 > 
 > Thanks
 > 
 > Marshal
 > 
 > 
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