Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting

[Dan Farrell]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:18:05 +0100
Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org> wrote:

> I don't know exactly how initscripts work, but I suppose that if
> the /24 is given in /etc/conf.d/net, then both the resulting iproute2
> and ifconfig command that bring the interface up will include the
> netmask specification.

How the net init script works (there's really only one, generally net.*
is linked to net.lo for update simplicity) is configured
in /etc/conf.d/net.  /etc/conf.d/net.example holds examples for just
about every imaginable configuration, but from my net, iproute2 looks
something like:

modules=("iproute2");
config_eth0=( "192.168.1.87/24 brd 192.168.1.255");
routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.1.1" );
config_eth1=( "192.168.1.88/24 brd 192.168.1.255" );

but as you can see, that still doesn't set up a netmask but uses the
default.  I agree that in both cases the default would be /8 for a
10.xxx network, but as you can see the config syntax is different for
iproute2 and ifconfig.  
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