Andrew Schulman wrote: > Stefan Bellon wrote: [ifup does not bring up interface via dhcp]
> > The file /etc/network/interfaces contains the lines > > > > auto eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > which looks ok to me. > Yes, this seems fine (although I also have auto lo and > iface lo inet loopback > in mine). Yes, that's in mine as well, but as loopback comes up without any problems, I discarded that from my last posting, sorry. > > As mentioned above, with version 3.0+3.0.1rc11-4 it worked. To me, > > it looks like dhclient previously did the "ifconfig eth0 up" > > itself, but now expects somebody else to do it, but nobody does. > > > > As a result, I have to manually bring up the network (which is > > annoying) as ifup doesn't do it. > It seems that ifup isn't doing its job. First, be sure that ifup is > installed, and that it's being run at boot. On my box this happens > in etc/init.d/networking. Yes, of course, same here. That's why I wrote that it worked ok with dhcp3-client version 3.0+3.0.1rc11-4. Just updating that packet to 3.0+3.0.1rc11-5 broke it. -- Stefan Bellon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]