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Re: setting up network



On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:49:35AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Antti Tolamo (antti@tola.org) [011008 16:37]:
> > 
> > I don't think you need more than network(in this case 192.168.0.0)
> > and define gateway to DSL router. I'm not sure what 'auto eth0' does,
> > I atleast don't have it with my DSL connection.
> 
> auto eth0 specifies that eth0 should be brought up automatically at
> system boot. This is done by the call to 'ifup -a' in
> /etc/init.d/networking.

Note however that "auto eth0" is only valid syntax in
/etc/network/interfaces in testing and later ... in potato, it is not
valid.  This jumped up and bit me the other day as I helped a friend
set up a potato-based firewall.

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