On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> I post a few things following todays reboot > > I have connected something to the other ethernet port now ... and so > ifconfig -a reports (with me doing nothing special but having > rebooted): > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:f4:b5:29:41 > inet addr:192.168.2.126 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::240:f4ff:feb5:2941/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > [...] > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:09:ee:6c:04 > inet addr:192.168.1.42 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::211:9ff:feee:6c04/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > both have received a dns served address (the one ending 42 is hard > coded at the router by MAC. The range 100-150 is left for misc). (a dhcp served address) This makes sense and is normal. (By the way, if you don't have a cable connected to eth0, "ifconfig" and "ifconfig -a" should give you different outputs, the former showing only NICs that are up.) > Here is a current grep of dmesg. > > Note in the /var/log/boot file that something called `NetworkManager' > is setting up the connections. I don't know what the virutal private > stuff is about... not my doing. > > grep network /var/log/boot > > [...] > Sun Feb 12 09:32:53 2012: Setting up networking.... > Sun Feb 12 09:32:53 2012: Configuring network interfaces...done. > Sun Feb 12 09:32:58 2012: Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager. > Sun Feb 12 09:32:59 2012: Starting virtual private network daemon:. > [...] So NM's bringing up eth1. -- 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/CAOdo=szj7xw6edv-wk2rg--rr7oi8ajndu5ogxstn5x+s9u...@mail.gmail.com
