Re: ifconfig

[Peter van Oene]

At 07:37 PM 12/5/2002 +0000, Doug MacFarlane wrote:

Can you please post your /etc/network/interfaces file?

Thanks

madmac

I can't post the file at the moment (without undue strain), however, all that resides in it is below
--------------------------
auto lo eth0 eth1

iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet dhcp
hostname almo

iface eth1 inet dhcp
hostname almo

---------------------

Thanks

Pete

On 05 Dec 2002, 13:51:49, Peter van Oene wrote:
>
>
> Having trouble getting my DHCP working after a 2.4.20 kernel upgrade. My
> interfaces work fine manually configured at time. However, I have two issues.
>
> 1: DHCP doens't work. I have used etherconf to set them to auto and also
> ran dhclient (i don't seem to have dhcpcd). Ethereal displays no packets
> at all leaving the interface (bootp requests etc)
>
> 2: At times, when manually configuring using "ifconfig eth0 add
> 192.168.2.5" a logical eth0:0 is created instead of the address being
> assigned to the physical. I can't seem to change this when it occurs. I
> can down the 0:0, but when I issue the command again, I get it back.
>
> I'm likely doing something dumb, but am getting really frustrated ;-)
>
> Thanks for any tips
>
> Pete
>
>


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