[gentoo-dev] Problem with net.eth1 startup script

[Todd Punderson]

Hello,
        After doing a update --world to upgrade about 2 months worth of
packages, I ran into this problem. I was following the directions to set
up multiple network cards. Here is what I have done so far and some
snippets of my config files.

I edited /etc/conf.d/net to look like this: (edited for clarity, the
rest of the file is commented lines)

iface_eth0="192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"
iface_eth1="dhcp"
dhcpcd_eth1="-R"

NOTE: eth0 configures correctly on bootup. The drivers for the network
card are also loaded properly. If I run dhcpcd manually, it works fine.

I copied net.eth0 to net.eth1 as per the directions.
From net.eth1:
        if [ "`eval echo "\$\{iface_${IFACE}\}"`" != "dhcp" ]
        then
                eval /sbin/ifconfig "$IFACE" "\$iface_$IFACE" >/dev/null 2>&1 || return $?
        else
                eval /sbin/dhcpcd "\$\{dhcpcd_${IFACE}\}" "$IFACE" >/dev/null 2>&1 || return $?
        fi

The problem is that net.eth1 will not start up as dhcp. I edited the
net.eth1 to see what it was trying to do by throwing some echo's in just
to see where it was...Everytime no matter what the setting is in
conf.d/net, it will only hit the "then" off that if statement. I hacked
the script to look like this:

        if [ "`eval echo "\$\{iface_${IFACE}\}"`" != "dhcp" ]
        then
                eval /sbin/dhcpcd -R eth1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || return $?
        else
                eval /sbin/ifconfig "$IFACE" "\$iface_$IFACE" >/dev/null 2>&1 || return $?
        fi

This works for the time being, but I'd like to correct the root cause of
the problem. While starting up, it says "Bringing eth1 up" so I know
$IFACE has the correct value. But I am stumped as to why the rest isn't
working.

Any help is appreciated!
-- 
Todd Punderson <todd@××××××.net>