"Joe" == Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joe> Am I missing something here? Is it the prescribed behavior Joe> for the "dhcp" directive to imply "auto"?
Not as far as I know. I have a laptop, and not using 'auto' works just fine. I would suggest experimenting with '/etc/init.d/networking stop' and '/etc/init.d/networking start' to test your changes to the interfaces file. When networking is started it uses the 'ifup -a' command, so only those networks marked with the 'auto' tag should get started. ifup uses /etc/networks/ifstate to determine what the network state is, so perhaps that is where things are going wrong. The behavior you are seeing is certainly abnormal. Perhaps the suggestion above will help discover a little more. Sorry for the lame help.... /Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]