From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GFQQN-0007K7-4P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:11:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7M79PUu024156; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:09:25 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7M77OTh018717 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:07:25 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4B58341D for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:08:53 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uKeApF0KehPJ for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:08:46 +0200 (SAST) Received: from alanm.local (unknown [192.168.2.140]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 223B38341A for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:08:44 +0200 (SAST) Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/conf.d/net From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20060821141352.WQJT19605.ibm68aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> References: <20060821141352.WQJT19605.ibm68aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:07:41 +0200 Message-Id: <1156237661.6507.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a2be6a73-97c5-4e92-881d-d3eff40d05c7 X-Archives-Hash: 24b4faa011167b02b4c57c418a4aa8f4 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). > 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list