Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.6.9
Severity: normal
If, in /etc/network/interfaces, one has "allow-hotplug eth0", the
eth0 interface is not brought up by "/etc/init.d/networking start"
even though the link is detected:
# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised link modes: Not reported
Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 2
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbag
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000001 (1)
Link detected: yes
FYI, here's the /etc/network/interfaces file:
auto lo
allow-hotplug eth0
iface lo inet loopback
mapping eth0
script guessnet-wrapper
map default: none
map debug: true
map timeout: 2
iface none inet dhcp
iface home inet static
address 192.168.0.8
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1
test peer address 192.168.0.1 mac 00:00:c5:b4:98:74
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ifupdown depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii net-tools 1.60-23 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ifupdown recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ifupdown suggests:
ii dhcp3-client 3.1.2p1-2 DHCP client
ii iproute 20090324-1 networking and traffic control too
ii ppp 2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da
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