static IP & DHCP problems on LAN

[Adam Funk]

On 2013-03-11, Tom H wrote:

> cat /etc/network/interfaces

Fair point:

#v+
#  http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/waiting+up+to+60+more+seconds+for+the+network+configuration

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# normal operation
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
      address 192.168.123.4
      netmask 255.255.255.0
      gateway 192.168.123.254
      dns-nameservers 194.168.4.100 194.168.8.100

# superhub operation
# auto eth0
# iface eth0 inet static
#        address 192.168.0.4
#        netmask 255.255.255.0
#        gateway 192.168.0.1
#        dns-nameservers 194.168.4.100 194.168.8.100

#auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

#auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
#v-

I have no idea why it has ath0 and wlan0 stanzas --- I didn't type
them in.  That machine has only ever had one RJ45 network connection.