> On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:34:55PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > > smeagol:~ 19:50:48 $ sudo ifup eth0 > > Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
<Lightbulb> Ding! </Lightbulb> That's a (hotplug?) script that adds the =eth0. So it's true, there's no interface with 'eth0=eth0'. I think the intent was to indicate the physical interface for some logical interface (I would have thought that was already accomplished with modprobe.conf and aliases, but maybe not). Look at /etc/network/interfaces and the "mapping" option. You just need to tell it to ignore the mapping. Unfortunately I can't tell you how :-(
