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Re: Best way to start eth0 without address



>>>>> "Robb" == Robb Aley Allan <rallan@helical.com> writes:

    > 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.

I guess the questions is in what file did you put it.  I could comment
out the line below in interfaces and put ifconfig ...  in
/etc/init.d/networking, but I'm looking to see if there is a more
cleaner way...  Thanks though.

    > 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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