Re: eth0 gone

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Chris Gray wrote:

> I'm running the unstable dist and a recent upgrade seems to have destroyed
> information needed for my network interfaces.  Running ifconfig displays
> the proper details for eth0 and lo but running ifup gives a "Bad file
> descriptor" error.  The /etc/network/interfaces file is intact but under
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ there is only all and default and no eth0 or lo
> anymore.
>
> How do I regenerate these?  What is the source of this problem?  Can I

net-tools version 1.58-1 was broken

Install net-tools != 1.58-1

> keep it from happening again?

Don't run unstable - it's normal that unstable sometimes breaks.

> adTHANKSvance,
> Chris

cu,
Adrian

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