How to bring up network on boot-up when NetworkManager is uninstalled?

I decided to get rid of network-manager for some reason, and now in order to get on the network, I have to run sudo ifup eth0. Here's what cat /etc/network/interfaces gives:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

How do I ensure I don't perform this laborious process again... how do I get the network started automatically on boot-up?

6 Answers

sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces

DHCP

# Loopback
#
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# network card
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Static

# Loopback
#
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# network card
#
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.254
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1

Restart networking.

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

If you use static, you might want to check /etc/resolv.conf to make sure name servers have been specified. It might look like this:

nameserver 208.67.222.222 # OpenDNS
nameserver 8.8.8.8 # Google
domain example.com
search example.com

3

Add eth0 to auto lo, like:

auto lo eth0

This will bring up lo (loopback) and eth0 on running ifup -a (done at boot time).

From man interfaces:

Lines beginning with the word "auto" are used to identify the physical interfaces to be brought up when ifup is run with the -a option. (This option is used by the system boot scripts.) Physical interface names should follow the word "auto" on the same line. There can be multiple "auto" stanzas. ifup brings the named interfaces up in the order listed.

2

this is not helpful if you do not wish to setup an IP address on this interface. In my case I wanted to bring up eth0 so it will enter the vswitch config. I had to add the following for the interface in /etc/network/interfaces

# eth0 physical, br0 bridge with ovs
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
up ifconfig eth0 up
auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp

3

"[not solved]: 1) vim /etc/network/interfaces; followed your advise 2) rebooted and >nothing happens 3) applied ifup eth0 also says "ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0 – >YumYumYum Nov 21 '11 at 20:59"

Today i had the same "ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0" issue. For me, the problem was due to the fact that I was configuring eth1 (in static) instead of eth0 (I didn't have eth0 configured).

So I just renamed eth1 to eth0 and it worked.

Hoping it could help anyone who done the same mistake.

P.S.: sorry for my bad english, don't hesitate to tell any mistake ;)

For people running into this problem and the selected answer isn't working, run ifconfig -a to make sure your ethernet device is displayed as eth0 which is likely the default in your config as well. Mine is eth1 for whatever reason.

So in /etc/network/interfaces I had to use:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

I also edited /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and set:

[ifupdown]
managed=true

I had the same problem where ifup ens192 would bring up the interface, but boot or service networking restart would both fail to bring up the ens192 interface ... it was resolved by using only one auto line ...

the new auto line was like this ...

auto lo ens192
iface lo inet loopback
iface ens192 inet static address x.x.x.x etc..etc.etc
###

the version that was not working looked like this (where I have two auto lines)

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto ens192
iface ens192 inet static etc...etc..etc.

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