Re: DHCP auto renew - not working

> I am not sure about whether it is needed, but do you have auto eth0 > somewhere in your interfaces file? man interfaces seems to suggest > having that as well... > The man page for interfaces states the following: "allow-auto" and "auto" are synonyms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Network Bandwidth Usage tool

I have Debian 4.0 installed running as a gateway. Command line only. How can I log the ethernet ports for bandwidth usage? Logging virtual ports would be nice too. Here's the situation. I set up OpenVPN to allow remote users to connect but I think the internet connection is not sufficient for

DHCP auto renew - not working

Out of the box Debian 4.0 installation. /etc/network/interfaces --- allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp --- Unplugging my network cable I get the following output: e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link down Plugging it in again recognized tha

SU error

I installed debian from the live knoppix CD it's version 5.1. It works great, but I do have trouble when I try to run any thing that needs administrator privileges. When I click on something say to configure my printer I get this message "Su returned with an error". If someone know what I can do th

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