---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Bruce <davidstuartbr...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:18 PM Subject: Re: Networking trouble after recent upgrade in Sid To: shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com>
Hi, On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:13 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Here's my old interfaces file where I statically brought up eth0: >> # The primary network interface >> allow-hotplug eth0 >> #iface eth0 inet dhcp >> iface eth0 inet static >> address 192.168.0.100 >> netmask 255.255.255.0 >> broadcast 192.168.0.255 >> gateway 192.168.0.1 >> dns-domain gnu-orleans.org >> > > Add 'auto eth0' Sorry to be dense about this, but is "auto eth0" applicable to automatically do a static ip assignment to an interface on boot, as well as being applicable to invoking dhcp for an interface on boot? try it or read: http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration or, i'll refer you to a thread i started: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/01/msg00905.html
