Fwd: Networking trouble after recent upgrade in Sid

[shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>]

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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/NetworkConfiguration
or, i'll refer you to a thread i started:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/01/msg00905.html