Hi Andy,

thanks for pointing that out - I must have had an old config, or it was overwritten - not sure.

ifupdown was not installed; installing that fixed it persistently across reboots.

Now I'm just struggling with lighttpd untraceably refusing to start up, but that's something I'm leaving for another day.  If I'd known an upgrade would cause this many problems....when will you start supporting FreeBSD?  :-)

Best regards, and many many thanks again for your patience and help.  I hope the solutions to all my missteps help someone else at some point.

-John

On 2014-07-06 02:25, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 01:34:17AM +0200, John Morgan Salomon wrote:
>> auto eth0
>> iface eth0 inet static
>>         address 85.119.82.201
>>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>>         gateway 85.119.82.1
>
> Netmask and gateway are incorrect. Netmask should be 255.255.248.0,
> gateway should be 85.119.80.1. This may not be the issue but it
> certainly won't be helping.
>
> If that doesn't fix it, being logged in to the console and seeing
> what "ifdown eth0" and "ifup eth0" does might get us further.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>
>
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