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
>
>
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