Comments on: How my Linux network unreachable problem got fixed

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:51:03 +0000

Thanks, your solution solved my problem. I did not need to reboot for the network to work again. It worked as soon as I saved the file.
But why did eth0 became eth1 ?

By: Harry M

Harry M — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:18:19 +0000

You are a star. You solution resolved my problem. I changed from eth0 to eth1 and my network came alive. You saved me hours of troubleshooting. Thanks.

By: Tim McGuire

Tim McGuire — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:23:51 +0000

For some reason it didn’t work until I rebooted, but your reminder saved my bacon. Is there a command to re-read that interfaces file instead of rebooting?
Just to prevent possible confusion for subsequent visitors,

1. notice that ifconfig says “eth1″ but /etc/network/interfaces references eth0
2. Change all references of eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces to eth1
3. maybe have to reboot.

By: Jinsong Liu

Jinsong Liu — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:00:14 +0000

Meet the same problem and solve it with your method! Thanks for your useful sharing.