On 21 Mar 2001 15:33:57 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > After upgrading my perfectly working laptop (perfectly working = working > with DHCP in the institute and working with fixed IP at home) I had very > big problems. The lesser problem was that I had to type pump manually > now in the institute (DHCP). The big problem was, that my network was > unavailable at all at home. After several hours I found out that I have > to do > ifup lo eth0 > manually (and do this explicitely - ifup -a didn't work either). If > I did a /etc/init.d/networking start nothing happened, i.e. ifconfig > showed no output. This is really strange and I havn't any explanation > for this behaviour. Seems I have to do some research. >
I had the same experience with net-tools after the 1.57 package. It seems that the upgrade did not add the lines that start the interfaces automatically to /etc/network/interfaces. So, after some research I added the line auto lo eth0 before the normal iface statements. And all worked fine afterwards.. Markus
