On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 03:04:08AM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > On 1/12/07, Michael Bellears > <michael.bellears@generalcommunications.com.au> wrote: > >Bah....fat fingers! Try auto eth0:0 > > The problem with auto eth0:0 is that last time I did this and I ran a > networking restart I completely shut down my server from external > access. I had to get the datacenter to remove the auto and then I > could get back into my machine. I believe that when you brought this up before you were told that eth0 and eth0.0 are the same thing and that was the problem. you need either eth0 and eth0.1 or eth0.0 and eth0.1. If it wasn't you, sorry. :) > > Below is the full setup I have for /etc/network/interfaces > > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 70.87.206.50 > gateway 70.87.206.49 > netmask 255.255.255.248 > iface eth0:0 inet static change this to eth0.0 and then auto eth0.1 should work. note that I haven't tested this, just recalling the previous thread on this topic. check recent archives (maybe two weeks). A
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