Some bugs
Alexander Kirillov
ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Thu May 12 13:20:39 UTC 2005
Frank Schafer Wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ------------------------------- ONE --------------------------------
> If I boot my computer with the network settings <eth0 inet dhcp> on a
> network without an active dhcp server I get
>
> during doot:
>
> ....
> Setting up network interfaces [OK]
> ....
>
> after login network-admin reports that eth0 is configured and active.
> A typical user (human being) is probably considering a configured and
> active network interface to be a FUNCTIONAL network interface.
> If I (what a typical user won't do) open a terminal and run
> ``ifconfig''
> I see that the interface doesn't have an IP address.
>
> Consider this to be a bug.
>
> I had a look into /etc/network and found some strange settings
> in /etc/network/interfaces. Can anyone give me a hint how this is
> meant
> and where to investigate further?
>
See this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=32361
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Alexander Kirillov
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