Package: ifupdown Version: 0.6.7 Severity: important
Something has changed in ifupdown recently that means that it will not bring up my eth0 interface If I stop networking and try and bring up the interface it fails /etc/init.d/networking stop ifup -a when /etc/network/interfaces has the following # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp fails with the following output [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # /etc/init.d/networking stop Deconfiguring network interfaces...done. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # ifup -a ifup: interface lo already configured Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 Listening on LPF/eth0/00:50:da:cf:a5:06 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:50:da:cf:a5:06 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.0.20 SIOCADDRT: File exists bound to 192.168.0.21 -- renewal in 10800 seconds. RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # ifconfig reveals that the internet address has been set to a default value [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:CF:A5:06 inet addr:169.254.50.3 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:fecf:a506/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:285925 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:167574 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:333055717 (317.6 MiB) TX bytes:13148490 (12.5 MiB) Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # On the other hand - if I do /etc/init.d/networking stop dhclient eth0 the interface is brought up perfectly - thus [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # /etc/init.d/networking stop Deconfiguring network interfaces...done. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # dhclient eth0 Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 Listening on LPF/eth0/00:50:da:cf:a5:06 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:50:da:cf:a5:06 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.0.20 SIOCSIFADDR: File exists bound to 192.168.0.21 -- renewal in 10800 seconds. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:CF:A5:06 inet addr:192.168.0.21 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:fecf:a506/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:285969 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:167591 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:333061594 (317.6 MiB) TX bytes:13149982 (12.5 MiB) Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages ifupdown depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.51 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii net-tools 1.60-13 The NET-3 networking toolkit ifupdown recommends no packages. -- debconf information: ifupdown/convert-interfaces: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
