On Tue 29 Mar 2016 at 11:14:56 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Thanks, everybody for your very helpful replies ;) > > It is quite correct that the "deprecated" message has appeared since long > before systemd. It is also true to say that this message no longer appears > in Jessie. However, maybe I was a little terse in my request for assistance. > So, for the pedants: > > tony@tony-lx:~$ sudo service networking restart > [sudo] password for tony: > tony@tony-lx:~$ > > Then, from syslog
[Snip] > Mar 29 10:15:06 tony-lx networking[21563]: Configuring network > interfaces...RTNETLINK answers: File exists > Mar 29 10:15:06 tony-lx networking[21563]: Failed to bring up eth1. > Mar 29 10:15:06 tony-lx networking[21563]: done. > ********************************************************************** > > All good up to the last 3 lines, where it appears that eth1 has not been > brought up. In fact, that's a lie; AFAICT interface eth1 is working fine. What happens when you comment out eth0 and eth0 in turn and retry? Any chance of seeing /e/n/i?