David Baron wrote: > Actually, whole business seems broken. > The above file is not really used anywhere, it seems. NO eth2 at all. Do you get a network device? If so what is the name? I gather from your messages that it isn't called eth2. Note that /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules keeps a cache of your network devices. If you have changed network devices then this will cause the name to be a different name from the previous network interface device. It will cache the ethernet address in that file and map it to a unique device name. If you delete that file and reboot then a new file will be created at boot time with the current devices listed in it. > I have to rerun netcardconfig to get this back every startup, last couple of I have never used that utility. Are you sure you need it? Are you sure it isn't simply confusing things? > days. After doing that and restarting tinyproxy, dovecot, etc., things work. > Otherwize, network unreachable. Is it setting up a dynamic address using dhcp? If so then it would be better to simply set up a dhcp address in /etc/network/interfaces. Here is a standard tempate. auto eth0 allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp > If I simply run network-manager restart, I get incorrect paramters. Use of NetworkManager is a controversial topic. It is discussed and flamed very often on this mailing list. Search the archives for an education of it. There are strong feelings on all sides. Personally I think it was ill conceived and I always remove it. Bob
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