Re: Making ifup or pump work at startup
* bob parker <bposs@dodo.com.au> [2004 Aug 10 10:48 -0500]:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:52, John Graves wrote:
> > I have installed the Debian Sarge Distro. After some adventure, I am
> > able to create a network connection. However several oddities occur.
> >
> > 1. ifup (or ifup eth0) doesn't work at all.
> >
> > 2. Pump when called the first time, says it can't start and that there
> > may be another instance of pump running. But when I check with
> > ifconfig, I now have eth0 up and running with an ip address.
What does the command 'ps ax | grep "pump"' return after the system
starts? Does /etc/init.d/networking exist?
> Check your /etc/network/interfaces, here's a bit of mine.
> auto lo eth0 eth1
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
I use this line with pump on my machines as well. No problems here
with Sarge (Testing).
If using a PCMCIA network card, then you will probably want to modify
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts and not start your ethernet via
/etc/network/interfaces rather letting pcmcia-cs handle it.
> Never heard of pump I'm afraid.
http://packages.debian.org/pump/
> > Is this normal? Also, what do I have to do have pump start at boot so I
> > don't have to manually start it. And is the message I get normal or is
> > there something I am doing or not doing that is causing this message?
No, it's not normal. Things should work so long as
/etc/network/interfaces is written correctly, but with pump it is quite
simple. Note that dhcp keyword on the iface line is the same no
matter which DHCP client is used.
- Nate >>
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