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  1. Bug #259214
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 259214

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 259214] Re: wired connection settings are lost after reboot

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:31:41AM -0000, Shirish Agarwal wrote:
> Hi all,
> I dunno much about stuff but I got this while restarting networking (most of the times I think I'm on Auto DHCP but dunno how that works)
>
> sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
> * Reconfiguring network interfaces... /etc/network/interfaces:5: misplaced option
> ifdown: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"
> /etc/network/interfaces:5: misplaced option
> ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"
> [fail]
>
> These are the changes I had done on /etc/network/interfaces
>
> cat /etc/network/interfaces
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto eth1 inet static

  ^^ thats wrong

auth eth1
iface eth1 inet static

would be the right way.

 - Alexander