On 07/04/2010 13:55, James Carlson wrote:

Do you have multiple lines in your /etc/hostname.e1000g0 file?

An ancient "feature" of /etc/hostname.* files is that if the file
contains a single line (or no text at all), then the system
automatically adds "netmask + broadcast + up" to the end of the line
when it feeds it to ifconfig.  But if the file has multiple lines, those
lines are fed to ifconfig as command-line options without modification.


IIRC if there is even a single line but with more than one keyword then entire line will be provided as options to ifconfig without adding any extra options automatically (so usually atleast netmask + broadcast + up is needed).

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Robert Milkowski
http://milek.blogspot.com

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