From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83332138A1B for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2015 09:49:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 163D4E08C1; Sun, 1 Mar 2015 09:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0D0E086F for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2015 09:49:42 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnQUAPOG1lRsoXT8/2dsb2JhbABbgwaBLIgGwGUEAgKBDUQBAQEBAQF8hA0BBTocMwshExIPBSU3iC3OIwEBCAEBAQEejw1yFoMAgRQFiieEdFSIV4EZhTCIaoF5gUUiggIcgW4gMYJCAQEB X-IPAS-Result: AnQUAPOG1lRsoXT8/2dsb2JhbABbgwaBLIgGwGUEAgKBDUQBAQEBAQF8hA0BBTocMwshExIPBSU3iC3OIwEBCAEBAQEejw1yFoMAgRQFiieEdFSIV4EZhTCIaoF5gUUiggIcgW4gMYJCAQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.09,536,1418101200"; d="scan'208";a="112103212" Received: from 108-161-116-252.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([108.161.116.252]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 01 Mar 2015 04:49:40 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 01 Mar 2015 04:49:32 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 04:49:32 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why my wierd ifconfig setup won't work in iproute2... ever. Message-ID: <20150301094932.GA22742@waltdnes.org> References: <20150222045234.GA2101@waltdnes.org> <20150227042756.GA18741@waltdnes.org> <20150301032203.GA20538@waltdnes.org> <201503010912.18984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201503010912.18984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Archives-Salt: b03d3260-3e56-4dd5-9e2a-b94634b3f995 X-Archives-Hash: fb67dc05226067ec2164a4b75f7a7139 On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 09:12:07AM +0000, Mick wrote > > Out of interest, you didn't say if you tried adding manually a route > in your /etc/conf.d/net for the link-local address space to see if > it works: > > routes_eth0=" > default via 192.168.123.254 > 169.254.0.0/16 via 169.254.1.1" <==Add this route for 169.254.0.0/16== That's *EXACTLY* what I was doing originally. See my post from February 21st where I started this thread config_eth0=" 192.168.123.251/29 broadcast 192.168.123.255 169.254.1.1/16 broadcast 169.254.255.255" routes_eth0=" default via 192.168.123.254 metric 20 192.168.123.248/29 via 192.168.123.254 metric 0 169.254.0.0/16 via 169.254.1.1 metric 0" Note that the "redundant route" is to allow my PC to talk to other machines on my little LAN when using a dialup connection as emergency backup. * It worked under ifconfig before iproute2 showed up * It stopped working when iproute2 became the default * It started working again when I turned off iproute2 with the line modules=( "!iproute2" ) Like I said in my original message, it worked under ifconfig, but failed under iproute2. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications