Hi I'm facing the same problem on my new machine. The default configuration makes it lose the internet connection soon after startup.
Here's exactly what happens. The system has two interfaces, eth0 and wlan0. Without an ethernet cable connected (standard since this is a laptop), the wlan0 interfaces gets an IP address quickly from dhcp and becomes the default route. Slightly after this (around 1 minute), avahi seems to timeout after being unable to get an IP address for eth0 (there's no cable after all) and gets an APIPA address for eth0 (and eth0:avahi) which then becomes the default route. But why is an interface that is down even being added to the route? And why is it "stealing" the default route from the properly configured interfaces? Bringing eth0 down fixes it only temporarily. A few minutes after running 'ifconfig eth0 down', that interface comes up again automatically and becoming the default route (wrong). I have "fixed" tis temporarily by commenting all the eth0 lines in /etc/network/interfaces Also, it appears that there's other people facing the same issue (besides me and the two other that reported this first). This thread [1] on the debian forums is likely to be the same bug. Carnë [1] http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=116275#p547803 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
