Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

[Manuel McLure]

Just ran into a gotcha with my main server upgrade to
openrc/baselayout2 - it appears that the old ifconfig network syntax
no longer works. I kept getting the message:

Error: either "local" is duplicate, or "netmask" is garbage

until I changed the syntax from

config_eth0="XX.YY.ZZ.WW broadcast XX.YY.ZZ.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"

to

config_eth0="XX.YY.ZZ.WW/24"

The other syntax worked in baselayout1.
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