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Re: Networking trouble after recent upgrade in Sid



On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> In <[🔎] AANLkTikOUziWdo6LUhfejJJ+g-ZnkHPmza8=ESjV7+2y@mail.gmail.com>, David Bruce
> wrote:


>>>From /etc/network/interfaces: ---------------
>>
>># The primary network interface
>>allow-hotplug eth0
>>iface eth0 inet dhcp
>>
>>So now, on bootup my web browser won't connect.
>
> Normally, if you want an interface started on boot, you should use:
> auto eth0
> instead of:
> allow-hotplug eth0


Both allow-hotplug and allow-auto should bring up eth0 at boot unless
it's managed by network manager as you say below (I'm not familiar
with wicd or ifplugd).


> Do you ifplugd, network-manager, or wicd? Those are the main things I can
> think of that would start an allow-hotplug interface.


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