Re: network not starting at boot

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

On 18 Jul 2008, at 08:40, Jochen Schulz wrote:

> michael:
> > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 18:32 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> >
> > > 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
>
> Network Manager may be running anyway because IIRC it is run as a
> daemon at boot time.
>
> > 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?
>
> I don't think so. The first machine just appears to have IPv6 support
> whereas the other one doesn't. Since I strongly suspect you only  
> want to
> use IPv4 (if it was different, you would know) this difference  
> shouldn't
> matter.

I've just realised that I hadn't the iptables firewall script in the  
correct place so

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

was probably falling over because of that.

M