Re: Ethernet is not started at boot

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

On Tue 06 Feb 2018 at 17:06:36 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Tuesday 06 February 2018 14:07:55 Brian wrote:
> >
> > 1. auto enp0s25                                                       
> >                                                  iface enp0s25 inet
> > static address         192.168.0.202
> >         netmask         255.255.255.0
> >         gateway         192.168.0.1
> >         network         192.168.0.0
> >
> > netmask and network are not needed. ifupdown will compute them. Note
> > there are no examples in interfaces(5) which use these parameters.
> >
> You should go and read that man page again.

I didn't have to but I did. A line beginning "netmask" is not required".

Some reading for you:

https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/ifupdown/interfaces.5.en.html

-- 
Brian.