Hi have a Debian Squeeze box with eth0 and eth1.
In /etc/network/interfaces is:
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 10.1.2.208
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.1.2.1
But every 24 hours, eth1 loses its statically-assigned IP address, and fetches one from DHCP instead! Manually doing:
# ifup eth1 && ifdown eth1
puts it back to how it should be.
But why does it spontaneously break in the first place?!