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A. Khattri wrote: |
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> One of my servers has a lot of IP aliases on eth0 so I thought it would |
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> be easier to use iproute2 instead of ifconfig. I duly commented out |
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> modules=("ifconfig") in /etc/conf.d/net (since the comments indicate |
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> iproute2 is the default in that case). Upon reboot, the startup scripts |
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> showed the IP aliases being added and each said [ok] but they did not |
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> appear to be added at all. Did I do something wrong or is iproute2 not |
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> the right tool for the job? I switched back to ifconfig and the startup |
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> scripts work fine. |
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They're added, but they don't show up in the 'ifconfig' output. You'll see them |
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all if you run 'ip addr'. |
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> Also, each IP took a few seconds to add (this machine has 260 IPs!) - as |
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> you can imagine it took about 15 minutes to add all the IPs before the |
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> rest of the boot process could continue. Is there any way to speed this |
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> up? Maybe forego the "arping" check for every single IP added? |
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modules_eth0=( "!arping" ) |
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> Final problem: I tried to force full-duplex on eth0 by using ethtool in |
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> the preup() function in /etc/conf.d/net. But now Im seeing errors like |
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> this on my console: |
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Why are you forcing it? The fact that you need to force it tells me that there's |
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something else wrong. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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