Comment 67 for bug 279262

It didn't show clearly in my previous post.

here is what it looked like starting with what should have been the last 2 lines of the file:

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.

The blank lines started here. There were 30 or 40 of them

Then the following appeared:

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.4
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

auto eth0

iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.1.4
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

auto eth1