On Tuesday 19 September 2006 12:53, Robert Epprecht wrote: > The machine in question was configured *not* to do dhcp at boot time. > (root has to do 'pump' each time users want to connect to the internet.) > Now I want to change this. > > What's the Debian way to activate automatic connection to the network > at boot time? > > Robert Epprecht
Debian uses the /etc/network/interfaces file for this an example. >$ cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp The "auto eth0" line brings up the interface on boot and the "iface .." line tells it to use dhcp. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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