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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] static IP issue
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:42:09
Message-Id: CAK2H+efYqTATNSF8cj=jS5f8eg621D=yHfTVtT-yk+rAZ5uvRA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] static IP issue by pat
1 On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:33 AM, pat <pat@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > I've installed Gentoo into VirtualBox. I want it to has static IP address and
5 > I've followed Hand book instructions and the OpenRC/net.example. After reboot
6 > there's a warning: "WARNING: net.lo has already been started" and each network
7 > depending service failes to start with: "<service_name>: waiting for net.eth0
8 > (51)"; where the 51 is a time which decrements to 0.
9 >
10 > I've searched net, but without success :-\
11 >
12 > Can someone help me? The installation is fresh one.
13 >
14 > Thanks
15 >
16 > Pat
17 >
18 > ----------------------------------------
19 > Freehosting PIPNI - http://www.pipni.cz/
20 >
21 >
22
23 I have a 32-bit Gentoo Virtualbox VM where I am actually sending this
24 email from. No problems with having a static IP:
25
26 gentoo-32b ~ # ifconfig -a
27 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:d4:6a:35
28 inet addr:192.168.1.125 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
29 inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fed4:6a35/64 Scope:Link
30 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
31 RX packets:103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
32 TX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
33 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
34 RX bytes:10493 (10.2 KiB) TX bytes:9152 (8.9 KiB)
35
36 lo Link encap:Local Loopback
37 inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
38 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
39 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
40 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
41 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
42 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
43 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
44
45 sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
46 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
47 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
48 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
49 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
50 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
51
52 gentoo-32b ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net
53 net network
54 gentoo-32b ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net
55 # This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
56 # scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
57 # please review /usr/share/doc/openrc*/net.example* and save your configuration
58 # in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
59
60 config_eth0="192.168.1.125 netmask 255.255.255.0"
61 routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.1"
62 gentoo-32b ~ #
63
64 If it helps, I have the VM NEtwork settings set to Bridged Adapter.
65
66 HTH,
67 Mark

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