Re: eth0 gone

[Chris Gray <cpgray@library.uwaterloo.ca>]

Thanks, Adrian,

That did the trick.

I know the risks of running unstable and I'm willing to take them to get
the more up-to-date packages.  Actually, I run the stable dist on a
somewhat more mission critical machine.

Chris


On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> 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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