On 23/02/07 17:40, Scott Reese wrote:

Hello Scott,

>> I don't need any IP address on eth0, but I need it to be up. I can
>> manually run "ifconfig eth0 up", but I can't figure out how to do this
>> automatically at boot time. I have tried to put in the following
>> in /etc/network/interfaces:
>>
>> auto eth0
>> iface eth0
>>
>> However, ifup complains about incomplete parameters. Does anyone know the
>> correct way to solve this problem? Please keep in mind that I can already
>> do this from an /etc/rc.local script or somesuch, but I consider those
>> kind of solutions to be a hack, and I prefer to do things the
>> way "proper" way, ie. using the distro's scripts.
>
> in /etc/network/interfaces:
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet manual
>
> The manual method is described in the manpage "interfaces"

Thank you for your advice.

The "manual" method is not described in the man page for "interfaces" on
this system that I have. It may be because it's running Debian 3.0. I
will probably use some kind of entry in /etc/rc.boot to get this working
at boot time.

Regards,

--
Anand


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