Re: ifconfig

[Peter van Oene <pvo@usermail.com>]

At 07:37 PM 12/5/2002 +0000, Doug MacFarlane wrote:

> Can you please post your /etc/network/interfaces file?
>
> Thanks
>
> madmac

I can't post the file at the moment (without undue strain), however, all 
that resides in it is below
--------------------------
auto lo eth0 eth1

iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet dhcp
        hostname almo

iface eth1 inet dhcp
        hostname almo

---------------------

Thanks

Pete




> On 05 Dec 2002, 13:51:49, Peter van Oene wrote:
> >
> >
> > Having trouble getting my DHCP working after a 2.4.20 kernel upgrade.  My
> > interfaces work fine manually configured at time.  However, I have two 
> issues.
> >
> > 1: DHCP doens't work. I have used etherconf to set them to auto and also
> > ran dhclient (i don't seem to have dhcpcd).  Ethereal displays no packets
> > at all leaving the interface (bootp requests etc)
> >
> > 2: At times, when manually configuring using "ifconfig eth0 add
> > 192.168.2.5" a logical eth0:0 is created instead of the address being
> > assigned to the physical.  I can't seem to change this when it occurs.  I
> > can down the 0:0, but when I issue the command again, I get it back.
> >
> > I'm likely doing something dumb, but am getting really frustrated ;-)
> >
> > Thanks for any tips
> >
> > Pete
> >
> >
>
>
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> Doug MacFarlane
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