On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is) The relevant stanza in /etc/network/interfaces is # allow-hotplug eth2 # auto eth2 # iface eth2 inet dhcp # wireless-essid SomeThing # wireless-mode Managed I commented out this stanza and did $sudo ifconfig eth2 down Even after that, eth2 interface comes up after some time for no reason. I believe it is due to dhclient, since I see messages like the following in /var/log/syslog
Did you do a /etc/init.d/networking restart after commenting that out? Interfaces shouldn't just come up by themselves. Also it's highly unlikely that it's dhcpclient bringing the interface up. All you would really need to do is leave the allow-hotplug and auto parts commented out, then you can ifup eth2 , ifdown eth2 when you want.
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