Jeff wrote: > From /etc/network/interfaces... > auto eth0 > allow-hotplug eth0
That is unusual to have two entries. I don't know if that is valid or not but I have never seen such a configuration in the wild before. I suggest picking one or the other. 'auto' is enabled when the /etc/init.d/networking script runs. 'allow-hotplug' is enabled when the devices comes online. The rest of the file looked okay to me. > I can restart the network, and the static ip gets restored - only to be > dropped again at some unpredictable time (usually seems to happen only > after hours or days have passed). > > Any ideas as to why the static ip is being dropped and replaced by a > DHCP call would be much appreciated. Is there a dhclient process running? I suspect so. ps -ef | grep dhclient If so then that process is periodically getting a new DHCP address. Find out why that process is getting started and fix it there. It is perhaps a leftover since before you modified the interfaces file and after it was configured off nothing knew to kill it. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
