Re: Ethernet connection weirdly not working mornings
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 30 Jun 2011 at 11:02:18 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>>
>> By the way, it should be
>>
>> auto eth0
>>
>> in /etc/network/interfaces. "allow-hotplug" makes only sense, if the network
>> card is removable like, e.g., a pcmcia ethernet adapter.
>
> No, it needn't be. Both run 'ifup eth0'. But there would be no harm done
> in using it, unless you are bothered about the length of time to boot.
No.
"auto eth0" (or "allow-auto eth0") is brought up by "ifup -a" through
"/etc/init.d/networking".
"allow-hotplug eth0" is brought up by "/lib/udev/net.agent" through
"/lib/udev/rules.d/80-drivers.rules" in Squeeze and
"/lib/udev/rules.d/80-networking.rules" in Wheezy.
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