>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Howard <[email protected]> writes:
Scott> This is driving me crazy. I install Ubuntu Server on a Scott> portable drive at home. Fire it up on a wired network and Scott> check ifconfig. It dutifully gives me the internal ip address Scott> from my router and is able to access the internet. I then Scott> dutifully reboot the machine turning it off after everything is Scott> killed but before the reboot starts. Scott> The scene changes to my office where I turn on a different Scott> machine with no drives but the portable drive on the USB port. Scott> Ubuntu server boots up and works just fine until I sudo Scott> ifconfig. The internal loop shows 127.0.0.0 shows but the Scott> wired network ip address does not. Init.d/networking restart Scott> gets an eth0 no such device message. Scott> Ubuntu LiveCd on the office machine get the network and Scott> internet just fine. Scott> Any thoughts or help would be appreciated or even a large Scott> hammer would be appreciated. Does ifconfig -a show a different ethernet interface? Sometimes udev rules map ethernet macaddrs to specific interface names, and if a non-match is found, then the new macaddr gets a new interface name (eth1, eth2, etc). In debian-land, the culprit is: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ... and yes, this is slightly crazy in many contexts. It really only is well adapted for situations when you are using the box as a router and want to make sure the "inside" and "outside" remain distinct. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
