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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: network setup
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:51:21
Message-Id: loom.20080129T194435-641@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] network setup by Mick
1 Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes:
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4 > > > can I set up the network startup so that eth0 first tries to get
5 > > > address from a dhcp server, and if it doesn't get any, it sets up with
6 > > > a fixed address? How can I set up this in the /etc/con.d/net?
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8 > > config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
9 > > fallback_eth0=( "aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd" )
10 > > fallback_route_eth0=( "blah" )
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12 > As I understand it this only allows for one fallback type of address (e.g.
13 > 192.168.0.0). If you connect to different routers which have different LAN
14 > address (192.168.0.0, 192.168.2.0, 10.10.10.0, etc.) then I guess you'll need
15 > some sort of additional script?
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17 Hello Mick,
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19 I'm not sure exactly what you want to do, but, you make want to read up
20 on 'net-misc/ucarp'
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22 "UCARP allows a couple of hosts to share common virtual IP addresses in order to
23 provide automatic failover. It is a portable userland implementation of the
24 secure and patent-free Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP, OpenBSD’s
25 alternative to the patents-bloated VRRP)."
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27 hth,
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29 James
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: network setup Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>