Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Sunday, 21 April 2024 20:36:56 BST J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Friday, 19 April 2024 16:05:47 CEST Dale wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > I'm playing around with my NAS box again.  I ran into a network issue.
> > I sorta forgot I unplugged the network cable so obviously, it made it
> > difficult to ssh into the thing from my main rig.  After hooking up a
> > monitor and keyboard, I found the problem and plugged the network cable
> > back in.  ROFLMBO  Told y'all I forget stuff.
> > 
> > Anyway, while investigating this, I realized the network setup is not
> > like on my old rig.  Heck, I couldn't even figure out how to restart it
> > other than switching to the boot runlevel and back to default, or
> > rebooting.  After a bit, I think I can restart DHCP and it restart the
> > network.  I figured out the cable was unplugged before trying that.  I'm
> > wanting to set up the NAS box network the same way as my main rig.
> > That's the old manual way.  I went back to the install handbook, that's
> > what I followed when installing on my main rig.  Thing is, it has been
> > updated and the old way isn't all there.  I followed what little bit is
> > there but it defaults back to the new way.  I'm sure I'm missing some
> > file I need to edit but I can't figure out which one it is.  So, is
> > there a way to get the old instructions again?  The ones I followed
> > several years ago for my main rig?  I tried searching but it seems they
> > all gone.  Maybe there is a place I'm not aware of tho.  Basically, I
> > want to be able to start/stop/restart enp3s0 as a service and have it in
> > a runlevel.
> > 
> > Also, I'd like to get the install handbook as one large page.  My
> > intention is to save it locally for future reference as it is now.  I
> > may even print a copy.  I looked at all the places that have different
> > options but can't find the whole thing as one large page.  I looked
> > under several drop down menus and such.  A long time ago, it was a
> > option.  I just can't find it now.  May that option isn't available
> > anymore.  I wish I had a copy of the one from several years ago.  Back
> > when I installed on my main rig.
> > 
> > Some network info.  Lines that are commented out are options I tried but
> > didn't work.  It was worth a shot.  o_O
> > 
> > 
> > nas / # grep -r '!net' /etc/
> > /etc/rc.conf:rc_hotplug="!net.*"
> > nas / # grep -r 'enp3s0' /etc/
> > /etc/resolv.conf:# Generated by dhcpcd from enp3s0.dhcp
> > /etc/conf.d/net:config_enp3s0="dhcp"
> > /etc/conf.d/net:dns_servers_enp3s0="8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4"
> > /etc/conf.d/net:#config_enp3s0="10.0.0.5"
> > nas / #nas / # ifconfig -s enp3s0
> > Iface      MTU    RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR    TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP
> > TX-OVR Flg
> > enp3s0           1500    16802      0      0 0         17196      0
> > 0      0 BMRU
> > nas / #
> > 
> > 
> > Thoughts?  If I had the old install info, I think I could get it to
> > work.  I did last time.  ;-)
> 
> Yes, try:
> config_enp3s0="10.0.0.5/24"
> routes_enp3s0="default gw <ip of your router>"
> 
> Changes to what I see:
> 1) You forgot the netmask ( /24 ) for the network
> 2) I don't see a default route
> 
> --
> Joost

That'll certainly work to specify a static IP address on the PC, but I 
understood Dale wanted to use DHCP to obtain an IP dynamically from the router 
and only use netifrc to set up DNS resolvers.

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