Comment 49 for bug 82335

I've a system w/ 5 NICs, 4 of which are to be configured up, with no addresses.

/etc/network/interfaces
auto lo eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3 eth4
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.9.8.228
netmask 255.255.255.192
gateway 10.9.8.254
iface eth1 inet manual
 up echo
iface eth2 inet manual
 up echo
iface eth3 inet manual
 up echo
iface eth4 inet manual
 up echo

At boot, when NetworkManager gets a hold of things, no interfaces are properly configured, and eth2 is the "better connection" (syslog attached). Here's ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:8B:7D:3A:97
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:87 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:10244 (10.0 KiB) TX bytes:998 (998.0 b)
          Interrupt:17

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:15:AD:00
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:492 (492.0 b)
          Base address:0xdcc0 Memory:e7e80000-e7ea0000

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:15:AD:01
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:9920 (9.6 KiB) TX bytes:316 (316.0 b)
          Base address:0xdce0 Memory:e7ec0000-e7ee0000

eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:15:AD:02
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Base address:0xccc0 Memory:e7c80000-e7ca0000

eth4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:15:AD:03
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Base address:0xcce0 Memory:e7cc0000-e7ce0000

Getting even more curious, after doing 'sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart' , the network configuration is as I would expect.

This is BROKEN.

Running kubuntu feisty, fully updated as of 20070328.