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Mr Shoubs
Asked: 2011-04-27 02:19:37 +0800 CST

eth0 doesn't start after interfaces modification

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Just installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 on VMWare ESXi 4.0.0 (201167) and changed the interfaces file.

My (modified) interfaces file looks like this:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static
 address 192.168.254.159
 netmask 255.255.255.0
 network 192.168.254.0
 broadcast 192.168.254.255
 gateway 192.168.254.1

On reboot (or /etc/init.d/networking restart) ifconfig -a shows the following:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0c:29:cc:0b:95
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

So eth0 won't work until I type:

ifup eth0

I've had this working in previous versions of Ubuntu without any problems, does anyone know how to get this working in 10.04?

ubuntu networking interface ubuntu-10.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Add auto eth0 or append eth0 to auto lo eth0 to interfaces files

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