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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] howto disable automatic net.eth0 configuration
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:09:02
Message-Id: 20111122180702.344ed002@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] howto disable automatic net.eth0 configuration by Justin Findlay
1 On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:46:43 -0700, Justin Findlay wrote:
2
3 > I have a laptop computer with an ethernet port, and during bootup
4 > dhcpcd gets invoked (twice) to configure a network connection on
5 > 'eth0'. I have set
6 >
7 > rc_hotplug="* !net.eth0"
8
9 Try rc_hotplug="!net.eth0 *". It may be matching eth0 on the * and
10 looking no further.
11 >
12 > in /etc/rc.conf and
13 >
14 > RC_HOTPLUG="yes"
15 > RC_COLDPLUG="yes"
16 > RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.eth0"
17 >
18 > in /etc/conf.d/rc (why do these files still both exist after 7 years,
19 > especially as they contain duplicate configuration?)
20
21 Because you did not delete /etc/conf.d/rc after upgrading to baselayout2.
22
23 > I would just unmerge dhcpcd, but it seems that NetworkManager needs an
24 > external dhcp client. What can I do to prevent this behaviour?
25
26 You could ditch NetworkManager...
27
28
29 --
30 Neil Bothwick
31
32 Windows Error:01F Reserved for future mistakes.

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