Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/conf.d/net

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 10:13 -0400, brettholcomb@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Don't feel bad Alan - for me, also this is very unclear.  I upgraded baselayout
> then got the message my conf.d/net was using deprecated syntax so I went to 
> net.example, copied it to net which is symlinked to net.eth0 (after backing up<G>).
> I then went through the file and found that it appears iproute2 is now 
> preferred although there are no man pages or docs and it got installed 
> on my system.  

I came to the same conclusions, which means that I now have to get to
grips with using iproute2 after many years of using ifconfig/route. All
this is probably documented somewhere, so I plan to find it's hiding
place on the wiki then post a link here :-)

Several people have had /etc/conf.d/net issues lately so maybe it's time
we resolved these questions fully

alan


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