On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 03:46 -0700, Slawek Drabot wrote: > "I dont see an 'auto eth0' line here. does it come up? > kk" > > you got it: it wasn't. Didn't like the gateway address. Mind you, that was no > where near the error message I received from ifup > > wouldn't it be nice to have an error message from DHCPD to the effect of: > DHCPD failed as eth0 is not up. eth0 is not up because you screwed up the > gateway address??? >
well, it told you that it couldnt bind for the ip eth0 was on (0.0.0.0). it doesnt know/care that eth0 is down, it just knows the ip isnt what it wanted. kk > > -- Karl Goetz, Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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