Networking - multiple nics not setting up

[Bill]

Hi folks,

I have a networking problem with a fresh install/upgrade of 
feisty to gutsy.

The box in question has three nics but they aren't setting up
correctly. All are correctly connected to a switch and the 
leds on the card are lit. I'm using static IPs and there is no 
wireless connection either. There seems to be some sort of auto 
configuration mechanism at work that is creating interfaces
I don't want/need and overriding the one I do want even 
creating a fictitious network.

At first I could only get one card detected - the one I set 
up manually - IP, netmask, GW, static address. The other cards 
didn't even show up. Later I began playing with 
/etc/network/interfaces and one of the cards kept being 
assigned an incorrect FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF mac address while the 
other seemed ok.

The thing is there should be an eth1 interface set up.
Instead I get two virtual interfaces eth3 and eth3:avah.
The basic information for eth3 is correct but I don't 
want the eth3:avah interface or the 169.x.x.x network. 
It's the first time I've seen it. Is it dhcp, wireless, 
or IPv6? More importantly, how do I get rid of it. You 
can see what I want from the /etc/network/interfaces file 
below and the output from ifconfig -a and route -n.

All advice appreciated.

b.




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cat /etc/network/interfaces


auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

auto eth1

iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.1.6
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

auto eth2

iface eth2 inet static
address 192.168.1.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1




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ifconfig -a 

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:04:82:EA:65  
          inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:4ff:fe82:ea66/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:142 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:17484 (17.0 KB)  TX bytes:6310 (6.1 KB)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe000 

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A1:CC:D6:34:CF  
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:ccff:fed6:34ce/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:97 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:13988 (13.6 KB)  TX bytes:5142 (5.0 KB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 

eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:54:BA:51:5D:F5 
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:3602 (3.5 KB)  TX bytes:9114 (8.9 KB)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x2000 

eth3:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:54:BA:51:5D:F5 
          inet addr:169.254.8.220  Bcast:169.254.255.25 Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x2000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

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route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.1.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
eth0

192.168.1.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
eth2

169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0
eth3

169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0
eth0

0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1  0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0
eth2

0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1  0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0
eth0

0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     1000   0        0
eth3