Re: unable to bring up eth0

Peter Nuttall <p.s.nuttall@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:57:47AM -0800, Fred J. wrote:
> Hello
>
> debian testing / 2.6.13
> 2 ethernet cards, one to an asdl modem/router and one to switch. I am sure I have the relative kernel devices compiled in.
> during boot up, I get Falied to bring up eth0
> starting dhcp server: dhcpd3 failed to start - check syslog for diagnositcis
> I did lots of googling and after reading many pages, I am more confused, I get some conflicting thing and not clear on wha t to do.
>
> # ifconfig
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:E3:20:EC:E6
> inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:238 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:230575 (225.1 KiB) TX bytes:46948 (45.8 KiB)
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
>
> thanks alot for you help
>
>
>
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Hello,

How are your network cards set up? Am I right in thinking that eth1 is
your connection to your router, and eth0 is your connection to the
switch? A dump of /etc/network/interfaces would help here. You seem to
be trying to start dhcpd3, which is a dhcp server. Have you assigned the
interface it is running on a static ip? I suspect that one of your
interfaces is misconfigured in /etc/network/interfaces.

Pete

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/etc/network/interfaces******************************
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

# lspci *********************************************
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 05)
0000:00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 05)
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)
0000:00:11.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA
TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 11)

after changeling the file /etc/network/interfaces, I was able to bring up the downed eth* but why the relative dhcp package did not do this like it did with the up eth* on boot-up time?
my /etc/network/interfaces now looks like this
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.101
netmask 255.255.255.0
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

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