[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-10-18, YoYo Siska <yoyo@××××××.sk> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:19:32PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

>> And the lack of eth1:1 is presumably explained if the system is using
>> the iproute2 module instead of the ifconfig module.  My current theory
>> is that iproute2 is getting used because I have openvpn installed with
>> the iproute2 use flag. [I'm not actually using openvpn, but it's still
>> istalled from a couple years ago when I was using it.]
>
>
> From /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.7.0/net.example:

> # If you don't specify an interface then we prefer iproute2 if it's installed
> # To prefer ifconfig over iproute2
> #modules="ifconfig"

> As to why you have iproute2 installed...

I know why iproute2 is installed.  Like I said before, I have openvpn
installed with the iproute2 use flag.

What I didn't know was why iproute2 was being used by the startup
system when the handbook said that ifconfig was the defalt.  I hadn't
overridden that default, so I was expecting ifconfig to be used by the
startup system.

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