By the way, it should be auto eth0
in /etc/network/interfaces. "allow-hotplug" makes only sense, if the network card is removable like, e.g., a pcmcia ethernet adapter. Maybe, Scott Ferguson is right: the DHCP server "could" have just run out of leases. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iuhe22$ms5$1...@dough.gmane.org