On Saturday 21 Apr 2007, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Saturday 21 Apr 2007, Alan Chandler wrote: > > For a while now, I have been running a server with two ethernet > > cards in. > > > > In /etc/networks/interfaces I defined the basic interface as eth0 > > and eth1, but in order to create some additional psuedo ip > > addresses on my lan I created eth1:0, eth1:1 ... with static ip > > addresses. > > > > A couple of days ago I wanted to test something so > > changed /etc/networks/interfaces and turned all eth1 into eth0 > > addresses and vica versa. > > > > However, now - when I reboot, I still end up with an additional > > eth1:0 interface - and this seems to stop my dhcp server starting. > > Its actually worse than I thought > > I can take this interface down with > > ifconfig eth1:0 down > > and then come back a few hours later and its spontaneously been > created again. > I discovered it - its dhclient - and in particular dhclient.conf which had defined eth1 as already having an ip-address (it had not been changed to eth0)
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