Re: Setting IP address not working
> On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:48, Alan Chandler wrote:
>> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 22:12, Kent West wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> I can't understand why your /etc/network/interfaces file is being
>>> ignored. It makes no sense to me. Maybe the permissions on the file?
>>
>> It is not being ignored - the ifupdown script is using it, but getting the
>> error message back from the kernel (I think that is what the "RTNETLINK
> If I do
>
> /etc/init.d/networking stop
> ifup -a
>
> then it fails to bring up eth0 properly
>
> If I do
>
> /etc/init.d/networking stop
> dhclient eth0
>
> then the interface is brought up properly.
>
> Since /etc/networking/interfaces has
>
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> then something seems wrong with ifup!
What does ifup -avn say?
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