Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 18:53:07 +0000, Camaleón wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:00 +0000, Brian wrote:
> 
> > It means ifupdown was able to configure eth0 because there is now an
> > ethernet cable attached to it.
> 
> But Harry said there was no cable connected to that card :-?

In the post you responded to there is:

   I have connected something to the other ethernet port
   now ... and so ifconfig -a reports (with me doing
   nothing special but having rebooted):

and

   both have received a dns served address (the one ending
   42 is hard coded at the router by MAC.  The range 100-150
   is left for misc).