2nd Network Card Configuration - Dapper

[Bill Marcum]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:20:15 -0700, Clint Tinsley 
  <clintin at linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
> 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  


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