Re: starting eth1 up on boot ?

[Amir Tal <tal@whatsup.org.il>]

On Friday 06 September 2002 07:52, root wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:27:54PM -0800, W.D.McKinney wrote:
> > I have a sever I just loaded up with Woody but it's not starting up
> > my network connection upon bootup ? What's the process in Debian to
> > add a service like this ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dee
>
>   Add an entry to /etc/network/interfaces
>
>   If you are on a network with a dhcp server then the following will do:
>
> auto lo eth0
> iface lo inet loopback
> iface eth0 inet dhcp

all true except its eth1, not eth0 ;)
and - does "root" is a good display name for a mailing list ? ;)

tal.


>
>   If not, read the interfaces(5) man page, the syntax isn't very hard.
>
>   Cheers
>   Geoff Crompton