2nd Network Card Configuration - Dapper

[Clint Tinsley]

> > I can manually make it all work.  I have the second NIC configured in the
> > interfaces as eth1 and properly defined but it won't come activate at
> > boot time and DHCP services fail to start.  With it configured this way,
> > if I do an ifconfig -a, the card is actually shown as eth2 with no
> > configuration.  If I rem it out in interfaces, then reboot, un rem it,
> > manually restart networking, it does come up as eth1 and I can start the
> > DHCP services.  And I can verify this by pulling DHCP on another computer
> > from this system which then works.
> >
> Do you have an /etc/iftab?  Ubuntu uses this file so interface names
> will remain consistent, but it may "remember" interfaces that are no
> longer present.  Here is an example (not my real mac address):
> 
> # This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces.  See iftab(5).
> eth0 mac  00:14:BF:FF:FF:FF

Thanks for the pointer; I will give it a try.

Clint