From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QKuCz-0005Ir-60 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 May 2011 15:23:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAE421C03C; Fri, 13 May 2011 15:21:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B541C03C for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 15:21:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96ACDDED3A for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 16:21:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id K2AKPyBAGsBe for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 16:21:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60295DECF6 for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 16:21:42 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone? Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 16:21:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.37-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <4DC9B435.9010308@gmail.com> <201105122052.11961.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105131621.41576.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 51cdf2744503475068bce6354d94b9df On Friday 13 May 2011 03:30:27 Manuel McLure wrote: > Just ran into a gotcha with my main server upgrade to > openrc/baselayout2 - it appears that the old ifconfig network syntax > no longer works. I kept getting the message: > > Error: either "local" is duplicate, or "netmask" is garbage > > until I changed the syntax from > > config_eth0="XX.YY.ZZ.WW broadcast XX.YY.ZZ.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > to > > config_eth0="XX.YY.ZZ.WW/24" > > The other syntax worked in baselayout1. It still works here with baselayout 2.0.2: config_eth0="192.168.2.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.2.255" routes_eth0="default via 192.168.2.1" dns_servers_eth0="192.168.2.2" No network error messages. Sounds like your error is elsewhere. -- Rgds Peter