mrspaghetti

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I have a Debian Lenny box with Apache & MySQL on it that has been sitting idle for a few months. Before I got sidetracked, I was connecting to it remotely and doing stuff with it with no problem. Now I have booted it up again and suddenly it can't find the network. When I do ifconfig it shows it has an ipv6 address but no ipv4 address. Weird, because I don't remember doing anything to it that would have affected networking (in fact, I don't remember doing anything with this box at all since it went idle).

I don't think it is my router, since I have a couple other machines connected to it as usual and no problems with them getting ip addresses and connecting.

On bootup I get the message that it cannot reliably identify the ip address.

Any ideas what could have caused this, and the best way to fix it?

Thanks

Dutch Master

Disable IPv6 permanently, then reboot the networkinterface to see if it picks up a DHCP address. Otherwise asign a static address.

tredegar

Here's a link to disable IPv6.

You will have to restart networking, or reboot for this to take effect.

Eventually, hopefully soon, we'll all migrate to IPv6.

Meanwhile we have to put up with "workarounds"