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Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...



On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:49:03PM -0800, ben wrote:
> On Saturday 16 February 2002 02:59 pm, will trillich wrote:
...
> > on my potato server at home, it doesn't seem to. should it?
> >
> i guess not, if your system works without it. i had the impression that auto 
> lo was a necessary first entry in the interfaces file, based on the fact that 
> if i uncomment or delete it, dns resolution is crippled. i'm on a dialup, so 
> maybe the rules are different.

As I wrote before, this changed from potato to woody.
In potato there is the `noauto' option, in woody there is the `auto' stanza.

-- 
groetjes, carel



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