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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] default gateway problem
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:43:16
Message-Id: 200511061530.48121.john@jolet.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] default gateway problem by Thierry de Coulon
1 I do it in the /etc/conf.d/net. "default gw 192.168.0.1" is the entry and it
2 goes in fine. however, the entry I have is "routes_eth0" not "route_eth0".
3
4 On Sunday 06 November 2005 16:25, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
5 > Hello,
6 >
7 > I had tried Gentoo two years ago and now I'm back after some time using a
8 > Debian derivate (is still my main system for the time being).
9 >
10 > I spent quite a time emerging and compiling from a stage 2 and most things
11 > seem to work well. There are two little things that don't work just the way
12 > I'd like however and I could not figure out how to cure them so far:
13 >
14 > - I have a Ti4200 Nvidia card. I compiled my kernel with genkernel
15 > --configure and (I think) did everything required to have framebuffer
16 > support but I can't get a splash screen to work. Well, that's not important
17 > so I go for a text boot, no problem, but I'd love to have a good
18 > information about
19 > framebuffers.... anyone know where I should look?
20 >
21 > - my main problem was that, while my netwrok would start OK, the default
22 > gateway would not be set, I had to do it by hand. The informations I found
23 > were about /etc/conf.d/net but this file seems ok:
24 >
25 > config_eth0=( "192.168.1.31 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
26 > route_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.1.51" )
27 >
28 > other sources talked from an /etc/conf.d/route , but that file does not
29 > exist and I have no clue as to its syntax.
30 >
31 > What I did now was to add he following into local.start:
32 >
33 > route add default gateway <IP>
34 >
35 > But I think this is not the best way to do. Were should I put that default
36 > gateway information so that it works?
37 >
38 > Thierry
39 >
40 > --
41 > The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
42 > capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
43 > safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
44 > Frank Zappa
45
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Re: [gentoo-user] default gateway problem Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@××××××××.ch>