Nov  1 13:37:57 kimmern-laptop dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
Nov  1 13:38:02 kimmern-laptop dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
Nov  1 13:38:13 kimmern-laptop dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
Nov  1 13:38:28 kimmern-laptop dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Nov  1 13:38:35 kimmern-laptop dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
Nov  1 13:38:56 kimmern-laptop dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
Nov  1 13:38:58 kimmern-laptop dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Nov  1 13:38:58 kimmern-laptop dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

So after many lines like these above sudenly the syslog reads:

Nov  1 11:01:29 kimmern-laptop syslogd 1.4.1#18ubuntu6: restart.
Nov  1 11:01:29 kimmern-laptop kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.17-10-generic
Nov  1 11:01:29 kimmern-laptop kernel: Loaded 22825 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.17-10-generic.
Nov  1 11:01:29 kimmern-laptop kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.17.
Nov  1 11:01:29 kimmern-laptop kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.

And I didnt manually restart the machine..had to force it to shut down..

sudo route:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
default         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth1

/etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet