Re: network not starting at boot

[michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 17:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> michael:
> >
> > I've had a quick look around but can't see why my network's not starting
> > at boot, but works okay if I run 'sudo dhclient'... this is with
> > 2.6.25-2-amd64 kernel from backports (build by debootstrap and then
> > apt-get from backports)... I've copied over various /etc files such that
> > I have a /etc/hosts and /etc/network/interfaces
> 
> Plaese post the contents of the interfaces file.
> 
> J.

mkb2@veri:/etc/network$ cat interfaces
# Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
# /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
  pre-up /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/iptables-firewall.sh