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Re: What's the name of eth0?



On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 10:52, Jesper Holmberg wrote:

Hi
There is mabye something wrong with your interfaces file.If you are
using dhcp, it should be something like this:

# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

/ernst

> Doing an "ifconfig" shows me (among other things) this:
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:8D:C6:50  
>           inet addr:10.11.165.13  Bcast:10.11.165.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> 
> 
> However, when I try "ifup eth0" or "ifdown eth0" (as root) I get the error:
> 
> Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
> 
> My question is: what should be the proper name for interface eth0?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jesper
> 
> 
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