At 19:50 09/05/2005, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >On Mon, 09 May 2005 18:59:54 +0200 >Jorge Lanza <jlanza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> As you can see I set the eth2 ip address to 0.0.0.0. However after a while >> the eth2 returns by it self to the previous configured IP address (i.e. >> 128.0.1.50). So, in order to make things work in the correct way I have to >> retype ifconfig eth2 0.0.0.0 and the second time seems that everything >> works as expected and the eth2 doesn't go back to the previous state. >> >> Why does it happen? What can I do? I need the device not to "get out of the >> brigde" and reconfigured. I have try to brctl br0 setfd 0 but still have >> the same problem. >> > >Probably you have eth2 configured in the normal distribution network >configuration >and the hotplug scripts are detecting the transition and setting it back. > >You need to make sure eth interfaces are not configured by other means. Thanks very much, but the problem now is that I don't understand how to do what you tell me. Could you give me some hints on it? It would be grateful if you could do so. TA.