On Tue 06 Feb 2018 at 17:11:03 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 05:06:36PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 February 2018 14:07:55 Brian wrote: > > > netmask and network are not needed. ifupdown will compute them. Note > > > there are no examples in interfaces(5) which use these parameters. > > > > > You should go and read that man page again. > > In stretch, Brian is correct.
The OP has installed stretch. What other distribution would I be talking about? > In jessie and wheezy, Gene is correct. Only with netmask. I suppose being half-misleading is better than being totally misleading. > Both of them seriously needs to learn how to delete lines of text. Is that the best that can be done in response? A mini lecture on trimming? Talk about shifting the goalposts; they are on their way to becoming invisible! At least two people are in total agreement that > No. You either want "auto enp0s25" or "allow-hotplug enp0s25" but not > both. Is this the accepted wisdom for now? auto and allow-hotplug cannot be used at the same time? What happens if they are? -- Brian.
