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Re: in /etc/network/interfaces: "auto" vs "allow-hotplug"

From Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: in /etc/network/interfaces: "auto" vs "allow-hotplug"
Date 2017-09-25 19:30 +0200
Message-ID <utFmF-11y-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Organization PC Repair

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On 09/23/2017 08:56 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I have two machines (out of a group of ten) that will not bring up their ethernet interface at boot time if the interfaces is of type �allow-hotplug�.  When I change that to �auto� the interface comes up at boot with no problem�
> 
> The remaining eight machines have no problem with allow-hotplug. (which is the default as setup by the d-i)
> 
> It does not seem to correlate to kernel version.  The two �auto� machines are running 4.12 and 4.9;  The �allow-hotplug� machines are running anything between 3.16 and 4.12.
> 
> Nor does it seem to correlate with static vs dhcp.  The two �auto� machines are both using dhcp.  The �allow-hotplug� machines are using a mixture of static and dhcp.
> 
> Anybody have a clue as to what�s going on?
> 
> Thanks in advance�
> Rick

Hi, Rick

As you have pointed out, things have changed, have you ran #ifconfig -a
to get the name of your device? I'm thinking the name you are using is 
not the same name the system is using and why hotplug is not working?
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel i7-3540M - EXT4 at sda6
Registered Linux User #380263

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in /etc/network/interfaces:  "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2017-09-24 06:00 +0200
  Re: in /etc/network/interfaces:  "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-09-24 15:30 +0200
    Re: in /etc/network/interfaces:  "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2017-09-25 11:20 +0200
  Re: in /etc/network/interfaces:  "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-09-25 15:10 +0200
    Re: in /etc/network/interfaces:  "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-09-25 17:50 +0200
      Re: in /etc/network/interfaces:  "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-25 18:10 +0200
        Re: in /etc/network/interfaces: "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-09-25 19:30 +0200
    Re: in /etc/network/interfaces:  "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-25 17:50 +0200
  Re: in /etc/network/interfaces: "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-09-25 19:30 +0200
    Re: in /etc/network/interfaces: "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2017-09-26 11:40 +0200
      Re: in /etc/network/interfaces: "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-09-26 14:00 +0200
      Re: in /etc/network/interfaces: "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-09-26 15:30 +0200
        Re: in /etc/network/interfaces: "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-26 17:30 +0200
        Re: in /etc/network/interfaces: "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2017-09-26 23:30 +0200
          Re: in /etc/network/interfaces: "auto" vs "allow-hotplug" Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-09-27 01:10 +0200

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