On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:34:17PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon February 25 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > allow-hotplug eth0 > > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > ------------ > > > why does it show auto lo and NOT auto lo eth0 ? > > > > Why would it? 'lo' is the loopback interface. > > sorry, I just assumed that eth0 along with lo would come up automatically.. > I guess I misunderstood what that line means. As far as I understand from the docs (man interfaces) there are two ways to automatically bring an interface up. The first one is with a auto my_interface which kind of blindly tries to bring it up (which does make sense for lo) and the second one is alow-hotplug my_iface which is more complex (but AFAICT will not work with lo). You will have to read the docs for the difference between them. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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