On 4/17/06, Avraham Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> # The primary network interface
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
>         address 0.0.0.0
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         network 0.0.0.0
>         broadcast 0.0.0.255
>         # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if 
> installed
>         dns-search bezeqint.net

How about :

iface eth0 inet manual
        up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
        down /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down

The interface will be up with no IP and still adhere to the Debian way...

>
> iface dsl-provider inet ppp
>      provider dsl-provider
> # please do not modify the following line
>      pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
>
> At boot, the system complains that it cannot bring up eth0
> because it cannot assign it the (crazy) address, but the output
> of /sbin/ifconfig shows it up and without an adrress. Just what I
> needed.
> pon dsl-provider, plog and poff are succesfully executed by any
> user which belongs to the dip and adm groups.
>
> Hoping it might be useful, cheers and hag sameach, Avraham
>
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