[Gllug] HELP Network problem

[Ben Whyte]

Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:04:50AM +0100, Ben wrote:
>   
>> till you try and ifup eth2
>>
>> and it says
>>
>> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
>> eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
>> Bind socket to interface: No such device
>> exiting.
>> Failed to bring up eth2.
>>     
>
> That's an interesting mess.  What does /etc/network/interfaces look
> like?
>
>   
>> Also why do I now have to have loopback on eth0 not lo
>>     
>
> Are you using anything beyond the interfaces file to manage your
> interfaces?  Do you have the hotplug package installed and if so what
> does the NET_AGENT_POLICY line say in /etc/default/hotplug?
>
>   
Hot plug is not installed though i do have a /etc/hotplug folder 
containing a blacklist.d

I do have udev on the box.

Ben
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