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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Network config problem
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 09:31:10
Message-Id: 2681749.1NLvbNz3YX@peak
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Network config problem by nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt
1 On Saturday, 30 November 2019 21:31:14 GMT Nuno Silva wrote:
2 > On 2019-11-30, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > I want to start playing with IPv6 (thanks, Ralph S.) but first I need
4 > > to clean up something wrong with my existing IPv4.
5 > >
6 > > # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
7 >
8 > [...]
9 >
10 > > * Bringing down interface eth0
11 > >
12 > > RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory
13 > > Error talking to the kernel
14 > >
15 > > * Bringing up interface eth0
16 >
17 > [...]
18 >
19 > Which version of netifrc do you have? Could this be bug 642774[1]? It
20 > depends on the request to stabilize netifrc-0.6.1, so if you have an
21 > older version, you could try that one.
22
23 Yes, that's it. Upgrading to 0.6.1 has fixed it.
24
25 Many thanks, and well spotted!
26
27 > From the commit itself[2], it looks like netifrc is checking for L2TP in
28 > a way which produces this output when L2TP isn't supported.
29 >
30 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642774
31 > [2]
32 > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/netifrc.git/commit/?id=1e14262524d65918ed6d1
33 > d13f2abd87b2f11425b
34
35
36 --
37 Regards,
38 Peter.