Re: network not starting at boot

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

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 18:32 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> michael:
> > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 17:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> >> 
> >> Plaese post the contents of the interfaces file.
> > 
> > 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
> 
> If eth0 is the interface you want to use and which you give as an
> argument to dhclient when manually running it, this should be fine.

yes (although I just run 'dhclient' without an argument):

mkb2@veri:~$ sudo ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:D1:E5:06:2F
          inet addr:130.88.15.180  Bcast:130.88.255.255
Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::219:d1ff:fee5:62f/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:190862 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5961 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:28320647 (27.0 MiB)  TX bytes:470522 (459.4 KiB)
          Memory:e1300000-e1320000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)




> Are you using Gnome? If yes, do you have Network Manager installed
> (package network-manager). This has messed up a lot of users' networking
> setups.

I'm trying xcfe

By comparing with another box I see that the working version has
(/var/log/messages)

Jul 17 19:49:25 amd64 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 10
Jul 17 19:49:25 amd64 kernel: lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Jul 17 19:49:25 amd64 kernel: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Jul 17 19:49:28 amd64 dhcdbd: Started up.


whereas non-working has only

Jul 17 14:49:27 (none) kernel: [    8.120950] NET: Registered protocol
family 10
Jul 17 14:49:27 (none) kernel: [    8.121367] lo: Disabled Privacy
Extensions

Does that mean anything?

thanks again, michael