[plug] Etho down

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

Hey Laurie,

I had a similer message and the cause of mine was because the pppoe 
module wasn't getting installed at boot time if that makes sense.  I 
don't know if your eth0 connects to the net or not. 

HTH

Marc

laurie anderson wrote:

>  Good Morning,
>
>  Monday night at UWA I performed a upgrade/dist-upgrade of Debian SID including an installation
>  of a new kernel from 2.4.24-k7-1 to 2.6.8-k7.
>  A most successful night except for 
>
>  I guess that the kernel upgrade has changed the way eth0 functions or so it would seem.
>
>  Looked at dmesg  --  the last line message is
>
>  eth0: no IPv6 routers present  -  are IPv6 routers required for kernel 2.6.8 - if so what
>                                    prog's are needed & what other fixes are required.
>
>  If the above is not the cause I guess we keep looking.
>
>  Thank's
>
>  Laurie.
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