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 1GT7yJ-0006QP-U8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:19:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8T2HMbN012323; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:17:22 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.225]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8T2CaJn004380 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:12:36 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so1008548wxc for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:12:36 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RhKNUOWrnzmIuOW2omKQrC5JwqO9UIOix9SPzo6WdKLO9FCWu4xWzCYM1xegoVblREKwfFzPbBaZiD9tPlTmEhudNtwS2GyP2KXlfP58ormgB7LFfItX0VvmkzNiMwbb00S3qHrfoagUdaNi0tiUKqRFviMYGURoIHv0OTS8LwQ= Received: by 10.90.25.3 with SMTP id 3mr1388agy; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:12:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.27.12 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:12:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10609281912w251dc1au1fd3a7a0a6c41f0b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:12:36 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem In-Reply-To: <200609281547.13015.mike@gaima.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10609272119u2cf7d235u34f682e7ff9318d0@mail.gmail.com> <200609281547.13015.mike@gaima.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 2e32ae11-b483-4a19-8fea-4696daec891d X-Archives-Hash: af3f25d16815301dc39fdd35470b39e1 > > I have a Gentoo router with eth0 connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router) > > and ath0 connected to the LAN. It works perfectly. > > > > I've added two ethernet cards and I'm trying to connect from another > > machine to one of the new cards (eth1 and eth2). ifconfig shows the cards > > are detected just fine, but dhcp always fails when trying to obtain an IP > > address. I have the following /etc/conf.d/net: > > Firstly, you really should look at /etc/conf.d/net.example and upgrade your > config to the new format. Will do. > > config_eth0="192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.1" > > > > config_ath0="192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > mode_ath0="master" > > essid_ath0="mynetwork" > > > > config_eth1="192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > > > config_eth2="192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > Err, you can't assign the same IP to multiple interfaces. > You mention DHCP, did you mean that eth1 and eth2 are to get a DHCP leases > from another server? If so, do this: > config_eth1=( "dhcp" ) > config_eth2=( "dhcp" ) eth0 is connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router), and ath0, eth1, and eth2 are all meant to allow other systems to connect to the LAN via DHCP. Should I be configuring eth1 and eth2 as 192.168.0.1? > > I've started net.eth1 and net.eth2 (both are links to net.lo) and restarted > > dnsmasq. I thought it might be a problem with my iptables settings which > > don't take the new interfaces into account, but stopping iptables doesn't > > seem to help. > > What are you using dnsmasq for? It's for DNS and DHCP. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list