undead eth0

[borker]

Hi all, I've just recently added a wifi card to my machine, which works fine, except despite having stopped networking through the init script, eth0 keeps coming back to life and stealing the default route. I use ifconfig eth0 down to kill it again but a few minutes later it'll pop back up again like a bad guy in a buffy episode!

Any idea what service keeps bringing my ethernet card back up again?

cheers
N

[sky]

Re: undead eth0

Hi,

I'm not sure, but I think it's because you have few lines in your /etc/network/interfaces like the following :

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
        script grep
        map eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

You can replace them by :

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

If your /etc/network/interfaces has something else inside, please post to adapt...

Hope it helped

[borker]

Re: undead eth0

thanks for the reply.

The auto eth0 line is what is already there, so it doesnt look like that is the imediate solution. I think you're right in that it is something to do with the hotplug system. FWIW I've solved the problem by just changing my routing tables to remove any non-local traffic routes from eth0.

thanks,
N