Hi Guys,
have a squeeze box which disappeared off the lan over the weekend. I
assumed someone had hit the powerbutton. When I went to the console,
it was all powered on, but had no ip address. The DHCP lease had
expired and it had failed to renew.
Didn't have much time to play with it so i rebooted it and ran.
Looking today, I see the /etc/network/interfaces file has:
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
#networkmanager#iface eth0 inet dhcp
which I have changed to:
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Is that likely to cause an issue? Should I now look for some network
manager daemon and disable that?
The machine essentially has a static ip set by DHCP, so I could
hardwire it in, but the dhcp management has worked favourably in the
past so I'm not keen to change that process, just don't want machines
dropping off the lan presumably due to some network management daemon
that isn't needed.
Harry.
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