-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 09:01:21AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 06:58:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 February 2018 05:42:53 Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > auto enp0s25 > > > iface enp0s25 inet static > > > address 192.168.0.202 > > > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > gateway 192.168.0.1 > > > network 192.168.0.0 > > > > > > allow-hotplug enp0s25 > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Doesn't the above line belong ABOVE the iface line? It has been in every > > example I've looked at. I am not using that line as its static, not > > dhcpd. > > No. You either want "auto enp0s25" or "allow-hotplug enp0s25" but not > both. > > If the interface is *important*, and you want services to wait for it > before starting, then you should use "auto".
Yes, totally agreed: I think you want auto and not allow-hotplug. But then there's still that /etc/init.d/networking throwing an error as if it were starting the "wrong" interface, while it should be doing the moral equivalent of "ifup -a". Hmmm. Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlp5wEwACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYGcgCeORPh733f+tYPd+BwPRRQqPMk 0p4AniIJLC40LqLIu/cCTLwsQiQRsRG6 =rGhS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----