No Ethernet Connection At Boot

[Mark Sargent]

Hi All,

came home 2 nights ago. Booted up, but, internet connection was down. 
Asked sharemate, who said he didn't un why(but said it was the same for 
him, apparently). Anyway, after some time, he said he had fixed it. But, 
it still wouldn't connect. I then deactivated/reactivated the connection 
and success. Now, when I boot up, I get the sane occurrence, and have to 
deactivate/reactivate the connection. I'm not seeing errors in boot.log, 
so what could this be..? This is happening only with eth0(internet/lan 
nic), eth1 is okay, as a client pc can obtain an ip through dhcp on this 
machine. Cheers.

PC has 2 nics
eth0 is static set to 192.168.0.17
eth1 is static set to 192.168.1.1

Mark Sargent.