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

[Todd Punderson]

Worked great!
Thanks very much.
Todd

On 07 Mar 2002 13:08:27 +0200
Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o> wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 09:05, Todd Punderson wrote:
> > 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!
>
> Hiya there
>
> Looks like I made a slight "type-o" when I was fixing up the form of the
> scripts.  Anyhow, try the attatched version, and let me know.
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Martin Schlemmer
> Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
> Cape Town, South Africa

-- 
Todd Punderson <todd@××××××.net>