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From: Rafael Barrera Oro <borafael@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:19:19
Message-Id: a964044f0711281111s262a14a1t80ff70aa622721b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting by Dan Farrell
1 Indeed, setting the ip, gateway, and netmask was enough to make it work in
2 my case.
3
4 Thanks to all for your replies.
5
6 2007/11/28, Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>:
7 >
8 > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:18:05 +0100
9 > Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org> wrote:
10 >
11 > > I don't know exactly how initscripts work, but I suppose that if
12 > > the /24 is given in /etc/conf.d/net, then both the resulting iproute2
13 > > and ifconfig command that bring the interface up will include the
14 > > netmask specification.
15 >
16 > How the net init script works (there's really only one, generally net.*
17 > is linked to net.lo for update simplicity) is configured
18 > in /etc/conf.d/net. /etc/conf.d/net.example holds examples for just
19 > about every imaginable configuration, but from my net, iproute2 looks
20 > something like:
21 >
22 > modules=("iproute2");
23 > config_eth0=( "192.168.1.87/24 brd 192.168.1.255");
24 > routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.1.1" );
25 > config_eth1=( "192.168.1.88/24 brd 192.168.1.255" );
26 >
27 > but as you can see, that still doesn't set up a netmask but uses the
28 > default. I agree that in both cases the default would be /8 for a
29 > 10.xxx network, but as you can see the config syntax is different for
30 > iproute2 and ifconfig.
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33 >
34 >