[nmglug] ifup eth0

[akaluta]

Dear Glug Persons:
tried communicating ssl between two computers home network
ssl has disappeared and left me with a problem as follows:
In order to call up firefox I must enter sudo ifup eth0 each reboot. any
ideas? 
some sluthing results:
a at radio:~$ sudo route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0
eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0
eth0
a at radio:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:72:b1:db:58  
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21d:72ff:feb1:db58/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3917 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3828 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:3885132 (3.7 MB)  TX bytes:533350 (520.8 KB)
          Interrupt:220 Base address:0x8000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1732 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1732 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:88404 (86.3 KB)  TX bytes:88404 (86.3 KB

am using router as dhcp server start and end IP 192.168.1

I am recalling some past advise and await your any suggestions "when
digging yourself deeper into a hole,stop digging" Thanks, Anthony