This one time, at band camp, paul said: > my interfaces file looks like this: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > why doesn't this work?
Do you have a DHCP client (pump, dhcp-client) installed?
Have you looked at the configuation file/manpage for same?
Do you need to send a particular hostname to get an address?
Not trying to be rude, but more information, please. Look at
/var/log/syslog (you can tail it while you restart eth0) and post some
error messages if you can't make sense of them. Start with the man page
for the DHCP client that is installed, and write back with details.
HTH,
Steve
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