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

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

[brettholcomb]

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 use static so I updated the address with the new function per the in-file instructions and set the route.  I restarted net.eth0 and immediately lost internet access - I had pop and https but no news or regular http or sync!  After much hassle all I did was comment out some nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf and left a couple more and it worked again.  To be honest I can't say the upgrade was to blame - I'm checking into the nameservers having issues. 

However, the differences between the old and new or what the new is supposed to do better is very unclear.


> 
> From: Alan Mckinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
> Date: 2006/08/21 Mon AM 09:43:17 EDT
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: /etc/conf.d/net
> 
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 10:05 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > · Alan Mckinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>:
> 
> I read it, but it doesn't deny anything - it simply doesn't mention
> iface_* at all. Maybe iface_* is deprecated, but I've used it since
> 2005.0 and that's what the docs said then. I haven't seen any updates
> about it either. The baselayout ebuild has several checks at the end for
> old deprecated files and veriables, but iface_* isn't one of them.
> 
> I'm using baselayout-1.12.4-r6
> 
> alan
> 
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Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/conf.d/net

[Alan McKinnon]

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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