/etc/network/interfaces file not read?

Forum: Networking
Topic: /etc/network/interfaces file not read?
started by: och

Posted by och on June 30 2008,15:04

The original /etc/network/interfaces only mentioned the loopback interface. In spite of that eth0 was configured in dhcp mode, which works perfectly for my local network.
Now I want to configure eth1 and eth2 with a static IP. I modified /etc/network/interfaces for that, but it is never taken into account at boot time. I can add a

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sudo ifup eth1

(or eth2) in bootlocal.sh (which works in spite of an error message: ip: RTNETLINK answers: File exists) but I guess I am missing some DSL dedicated configuration file.
By the way, this is a frugal install and /etc/network/interfaces is in .filetool.lst

Posted by lucky13 on June 30 2008,15:18

The boot-time system configuration is done by /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig. Local boot-time scripts are executed from bootlocal.sh. Those should be adequate to get your other interfaces up. Where are you executing pump for the other two interfaces? Try bootlocal.sh (no sudo required).
pump -i eth1
pump -i eth2

Posted by chaostic on June 30 2008,15:22

I'm figuring that that file, like most of the other knoppix-based files, are ignored.

From the wiki:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....ings.3F >

Add your static ip commands to the file bootlocal.sh

Posted by chaostic on June 30 2008,15:23

Quote (lucky13 @ June 30 2008,11:18)

Lucky, he wants static ip's, not dhcp ip's. (Pump = dhcp client)

Posted by lucky13 on June 30 2008,15:27

Whoops, off to a really bad start today. Never mind...

Posted by curaga on June 30 2008,15:56

That file is actually Debian leftover