On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 19:58:29 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> I'm running debian etch, with all current updates.
>
> After a thunderstorm dropped power a few times, I have been back on the
> net, obviously.
>
> For some reason, the /etc/network/interfaces file is not being
> read, or not being read properly.
>
> cat /etc/network/interfaces
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # The primary network interface
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.1.102
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> network 192.168.1.0
> broadcast 192.168.1.255
> gateway 192.168.1.1
>
> When using this file, and then doing an ifconfig, I get these results;
>
> ifconfig eth0
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:15:8E:33
> inet addr:169.254.*.* Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 (removed for
> a
> inet6 addr: fe80::20d:87ff:fe15:8e33/64 Scope:Link bit of
> privacy) ;-)
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:4293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:4549 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:2995721 (2.8 MiB) TX bytes:476602 (465.4 KiB)
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc400
>
> Yet, if I do the following, I cannot get past the router;
>
> sudo ifconfig eth0 up address 192.168.1.102 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> this makes this computer think it is 192.168.1.1
>
> Any ideas?
Do you have the "zeroconf" package installed? It is known to cause this
kind of [expletive deleted]. If you uninstall it everything should come
back to normal (after "ifdown eth0" followed by "ifup eth0").
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Regards,
Florian
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