Hi everyone, I have looked through a Debian book I have, as well as Google and archive searches, but I can't figure out how to activate an ethernet interface on Debian at boot time without assigning any IP address to it.
I have a system with eth0, eth1 and eth2. eth1 and eth2 have IP addresses, and are defined in /etc/network/interfaces. eth0 is connected to a monitoring switch port, so that I can run "tcpdump -i eth0 ...." to capture traffic on the network. I don't need any IP address on eth0, but I need it to be up. I can manually run "ifconfig eth0 up", but I can't figure out how to do this automatically at boot time. I have tried to put in the following in /etc/network/interfaces: auto eth0 iface eth0 However, ifup complains about incomplete parameters. Does anyone know the correct way to solve this problem? Please keep in mind that I can already do this from an /etc/rc.local script or somesuch, but I consider those kind of solutions to be a hack, and I prefer to do things the way "proper" way, ie. using the distro's scripts. TIA, -- Anand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
