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From:
David Bruce <davidstuartbruce@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: Networking trouble after recent upgrade in Sid
To: shawn wilson <
ag4ve.us@
gmail.com>
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:13 PM, shawn wilson <
ag4ve.us@
gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's my old interfaces file where I statically brought up eth0:
>> # The primary network interface
>> allow-hotplug eth0
>> #iface eth0 inet dhcp
>> iface eth0 inet static
>> address 192.168.0.100
>> netmask 255.255.255.0
>> broadcast 192.168.0.255
>> gateway 192.168.0.1
>> dns-domain
gnu-orleans.org
>>
>
> Add 'auto eth0'
Sorry to be dense about this, but is "auto eth0" applicable to
automatically do a static ip assignment to an interface on boot, as
well as being applicable to invoking dhcp for an interface on boot?
try it or read:
http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfigurationor, i'll refer you to a thread i started:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/01/msg00905.html