Comment 0 for bug 441802

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I'm running a server (alas, not installed as such) on 8.04.3. I just needed to change its network configuration from DHCP to a static address. I found this page, and tried to follow it:

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/network-configuration.html

I should have known better after so many years, but I both forgot, and didn't read, that I needed to add the appropriate 'auto ethX' line to go with my static configuration.

The box of configuration text

    auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet dhcp

looks, at first glance, like it only applied to DHCP configurations. The `auto eth0` line should be duplicated at the top of the next box, as well, to make it clear that it applies to static configurations as well.