Ubuntu Servers :: Messed Up Networking Interfaces File
Dec 25, 2010
For my router I need to change Ubuntu server from DHCP to static IP. So to do this I entered: Code: sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces ...and pushed the wrong buttons and exited the session suddenly by mistake. After learning how to use the vi editor I went back but I got a notice that the the last session didn't close properly and that a "swap" file had been created. Anyway, I entered my static IP info, saved the file, and attempted to restart with:
Code: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart Restart failed and I got a notice that I should delete the /etc/network/interfaces.swp file so I did. Tried to restart again and, didn't get the .swp file conflict message this time, but failed again - this time I got the following message:
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Feb 17, 2010
the default for /etc/network/interfaces? I believe I screwed it it up because I can detect my wireless, it just won't allow me to connect to it. The settings in the /etc/network/interfaces are all messed up. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10.
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May 24, 2010
I'm trying to setup my interfaces along side GNS3 for study purposes, and came across a ..... vid saying to try this (my current config)
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I'm praying for some crappy syntax error, also in Network Connections... its now blank, the original auto eth0 setup is missing
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Jan 7, 2010
I have a weird issue that I have not seen on any forum. My jaunty on DELL studio laptop seems connected to net, but I can not access any network service (ssh, firefox etc.). But when I connect a cable the cable lights blink as it should be and in wireless connection my wifi light blinks.
It was working 2 days ago without problem, and I have not done big changes recently.I removed and reinstalled network-manager and network-manager-gnome. Nothing changed. I see a message in each restart as follows (when Openafs is starting). I can reproduce it with "/etc/init.d/openafs-client restart"
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ADVISEADDR:error in specifying interfaces: no existing ip interfaces found
#lspci
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04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
#lshw -c network
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Apr 16, 2010
If I try to add a new interface (eth1) to /etc/network/interfaces, I get
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* Reconfiguring network interfaces... SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
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How do I add 2 interfaces and get anyone of them to work, as available ?
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Jan 26, 2011
I change the interfaces file to activate the DHCP service for my eth0.
How do I make the service active without booting the system. In other word, how do I run the modified interfaces file?
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Jan 20, 2010
DSL modem is a Speedstream 6520 router. All computers work fine via dhcp. I'm trying to setup a small server (print server, ssh & ftp servers). I understand enough of the software part of things to get it going, my problem is setting a static IP on the server box. Every time I set the IP in the /etc/network/interfaces file and reboot, I have no network connection. I can talk to the modem through the browser, but nothing beyond that, not even local computers.
/etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.254.202
network 192.168.254.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.254.254
ifconfig shows the .202 address, but box can't get to the outside world, and can't ssh into the box from a computer sitting next to it. If I let it dhcp, then I can ssh into it, and have access to the internet. In the modem, I have dmz set for that address. Wan address is static. I can ssh into it if I let it do dhcp, so I know it can work that far. But if I set static ip, I might as well pull the network cable. I've been beating my head on this for over a week, and I'm lost why I can't get it to work. I even changed the dhcp range on the modem, so the .202 is not in that range. There is no dhcp client installed that I can find. I'm using WattOS beta3, which is a light distro based on 9.04. The computer is an old Dell GX150, integrated nic. I have done ifdown and ifup eth0, still no happiness. Doesn't seem like it should be that hard, but I'm stumped. DMZ should let everything pass, so don't need to mess with port forwarding and such. I know it works using dhcp.
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Jan 25, 2010
I have 3 Interfaces for a different LAN's and when I start one interface the another interfaces goes down.How can it's possible?I configure my ethernets as:
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/sbin/ifconfig eth0 172.16.3.108 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 172.0.255.255
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 172.16.3.109 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 172.0.255.255
/sbin/ifconfig eth2 172.16.3.1110 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 172.0.255.255
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Jan 15, 2010
I work now with Centos 5.4 and I would like configure my Ethernet, but I can't find the /etc/network/interfaces like in CentOS 5.2.
[root@headnode1 etc]# uname -rmi
2.6.18-164.10.1.el5 i686 i386
[root@headnode1 etc]#
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Jul 20, 2009
which file can setup up my network interfaces? i was able to setup the nameserver using /etc/resolv.conf but I cannot find anywhere to configure the ip and and gateway. I could't find /etc/network/interfaces as you do on Debian
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Jun 17, 2009
Wich is the file for the menubar Sistem->Administration->Control Net Interfaces(I think this is the translation)
sorry if it doesn't.
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Jun 27, 2010
I have to get soem statistic about interfaces from /proc/net/dev. but statistic on this file is reset when get reach more than 4G byte.I think linux has limitation on this case.
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Aug 5, 2010
I'm trying to get OpenVPN working but when I try to bring my br0 interface up it gives me an error.The below messages is from when I run
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/etc/init.d/networking restart
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root@server:/etc/openvpn# /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... ssh stop/waiting
ssh start/running, process 28263
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Feb 26, 2011
I have been trying to set up Ubuntu server 10.04-2 and am a couple issues.
One issue is that the network interfaces aren't starting properly. I have to start them manually. I've tried to edit the /etc/network/interfaces with the following.
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auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
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Jan 25, 2010
how to edit and save this file using Vim-noX. (connected via putty) I have the file loaded up and Ive inputed the needed data for my static IP, but I cant for the life of me figure out how to close and save my settings. At the bottom of the command line I have "INSERT" which toggles with "REPLACE" and I just cant figure this out.
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Jun 4, 2010
I'm building up a server based on 8.04 LTS. It's using OpenVZ, and as part of that it creates a virtual network interface venet0. I add a stanza to /etc/network/interfaces that looks like this:
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allow-hotplug venet0
iface venet0 inet static
address 10.53.35.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
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Looking further, I note that /etc/init.d/networking is not symlinked into anything other than the rcS.d directory. It's been a while since I've been tinkering at this level, but I understand that there should be a symlink from rc2.d/Sxxnetworking into ../etc/init.d/networking. So I wonder where eth0 is getting configured.
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Aug 12, 2010
I have three VMs (VMWare Server 2) all running Ubuntu Server 10.04. (one I asked to be a samba share from the outset, the others are blank server installs, no pre-config)
I follow the layout in the community documentation regarding setting up firewall rules through iptables. I.e. I create a file called iptables.rules and place it in /etc. I then modify the /etc/network/interfaces file to look like this:
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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
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However this third one I have reinstalled Ubuntu 3 times now, and every time as soon as I modify the /etc/network/interfaces file, eth0 fails to start up (is not visible in ifconfig, only the loopback adapter), and no networking works.
I have tried reducing the iptables.rules file (which is a carbon copy across all machines anyway) to a basic accept all rule, and it still doesn't like it. As soon as I remove those two extra lines in the interfaces file, the network starts up no problems and eth0 is there.
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Feb 10, 2011
Last night I created a fresh install of Ubuntu Server 10.10. I was working through a tutorial to set up a development server for home use, and everything worked perfectly. I was able to install OpenSSH, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (and Vim) with no problems. I was also able to use "ifconfig" to determine the network address of the server and I was able to view web pages on the server from another machine on my home network, using a browser. So, everything was "peachy". [By the way: The server is connected to the router using a CAT5 cable. This is a WIRED connection] I shut the Ubuntu server down at the end of the night and, now that I have rebooted this morning, I have apparently lost the network interface. I cannot ping anything from the server. If I run ifconfig, only the "lo" configuration is listed, with the 127.0.0.1 address.
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Apr 25, 2010
I am trying to set the interfaces file to connect to my wireless network. Here is my interfaces file...
Code: auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
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May 26, 2011
When i type vi /etc/network/interfaces, i get a blank screen with blue dashes on the left side. "/etc/network/interfaces/" [New DIRECTORY]. I am running Ubuntu 11.04 server and am trying to set static ip. I found a work around but why is this happening?
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Mar 12, 2010
Last night I was making a boot usb drive with usb startup creator onto a USB external well I, messed up and lost the partition table for 2 USB drives: my 500 gb hard drive was pluged in whilst i was doing this silly i know it was partitioned 251 gb its now showing as 500 gb but the data is still on drive it seems the file system is gone or damaged
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Apr 6, 2010
Been trying to solve this using Google for a while. Well, I recently did: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. Now, whenever I boot up I get "Error #15: File not found."From what I've gathered, something is wrong with my menu.lstI've tried several things to fix this, but I can't figure it out.
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# examples
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Nov 12, 2010
every time I reboot and play a video file the colours are messed up. I need to manually increase then decrease the hue or saturation to get the picture to normal in smplayer. The colours aren't competely inversed as in the common bug with the totem sliders, they're just far too red and bright.Smplayer is the latest from PPA. I've checked the totem settings and everything is OK. It only takes two key presses to resolve but it's a pain, to be honest, so if anyone knows what causes this and how to fix it permanently I'd be much obliged.
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Jul 29, 2011
I recently switched from Ubuntu server to Debian server, and I carried over many of the same configurations. This is pretty much a fresh install.
I cannot get the default gateway to stick by using the /etc/network/interfaces. I can ping my default gateway but nothing beyond it either by name or IP. code...
I would like the default gateway to stick between reboots. Could someone point me in the right direction?
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Jul 2, 2010
I'm on an embedded system that doesn't have Gnome, and I'm trying to startup networking automatically using /etc/network/interfaces. Here's what I have.
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eth0 comes up just fine. wlan0 comes up, but it's unable to acquire a DHCP address. I added the following lines to /etc/rc.local, and wlan0 comes up all the way, but I'm not too crazy about this hack.
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Jan 28, 2011
Do you have to define a Gateway in the interfaces file?
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Apr 21, 2010
At first my internet was really choppy just using the default network manager, but I switched the kwlan and that was going pretty well, til I had to reboot and it decided to not work anymore. Now my kernel has no network manager, and I just need some guidance.
I tried downloading the original network manager deb packages from the ubuntu archives, but I couldn't get the core application to run (though I could get the GNOME applet) even wtih chmod I didn't have permission to do anything with it.
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Jan 29, 2011
I`m relatively new to Linux and Ubuntu.Now I have been playing around, editing the settings files for the networks cards, and now I have messed things a bit up.Any way to delete all settings, and make Ubuntu autodetect my hardware again?
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Oct 6, 2010
I am trying to get my ethernet adapter list to make some sense. This is what ifconfig spits out
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agarzon@euler:~$ ifconfig
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:ac:6f:3b:f4:4f
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Jul 28, 2011
I installed the latest release of Kubuntu on to my dell laptop about 3 days ago, I fell asleep last night and woke up to my laptop not being connected to my wireless(it was when I fell asleep, it didnt reboot or anything overnight an dno one touched it), so I plugged in an ethernet cable and it still did not detect an internet connection, then finally it connected through my phones mobile internet via Usb.
However none of the built in networking devices are working, I have them all enabled.My WLAN Interface says "Unmanaged" and Networking interface complains the cable is unplugged even when it is not.I know you guys will need some additional info from me to help me.I just used my mobile broadband to install Wicd network manager but thats just a temporary fix, as it doesnt fix my ethernet issue and I want to be able to use the network manager itself to manage my networks.
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