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ycUygB1
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Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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 Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:19 pm Post subject: Correct place for static routes |
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What is the correct place to put a static route?
I know I could add
| Quote: | | route add -net 192.168.37.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.62.2 |
to /etc/conf.d/local.start, but is that the correct place for it?
It is tempting to try and add the route to /etc/conf.d/net in the routes_eth0 variable,
but I'm not sure how to do that. |
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Oliv
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Joined: 17 Sep 2005
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Location: Montpellier (France)
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
you're rigth, /etc/conf.d/net seems to be a more suitable place 
try to add the following line:
| Code: | | routes_eth0=( "-net 192.168.37.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.62.2" ) |
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ycUygB1
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:29 pm Post subject: tres bien |
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Well, that worked well. Is that syntax documented anywhere?
This is your first day in the Gentoo forum? You seem to be doing pretty well. Much better than I was on my first day!
Harold |
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Oliv
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Location: Montpellier (France)
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, that's my first day in this forum 
But I've played with LFS during one year, so I quick understand how things work compared to a real newbie
About the syntax, I've not found a real document about (If someone know a manpage or something like that)... But according to what I've understood, I think it works like this:
-the keywords routes_eth0 will call route if you use" ifconfig" module and ip route if you use "iproute2" module
-then it appends the option beetween " " to the add option if that's a start script and the del option if that's a stop script
Hope my explanations are clear enough... |
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gerdesj
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Joined: 29 Sep 2005
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Location: Yeovil, Somerset, UK
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:45 am Post subject: Re: tres bien |
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Just in case it helps someone, here's a more complete example:
| Code: | modules=( "iproute2" )
config_eth0=( "192.168.100.140/32" )
routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.100.1"
"192.168.100/24 dev eth0"
"172.16/16 via 192.168.100.1"
"172.18/16 via 192.168.100.1"
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#ip r a default via 192.168.100.1
#ip r a 192.168.100/24 dev eth0
#ip r a 172.16/16 via 192.168.100.1
#ip r a 172.18/16 via 192.168.100.1 |
Note that routes_<iface> are the routes that get added/removed when that interface is started stopped. So for eg, if you have an ADSL line, you would put in a routing section that is to be added/removed when the ADSL line is started/stopped (and that section would probably include your default route, rather than the NIC iface)
Here I am using the iproute2 method rather than the current default ifconfig. I would personally recommend you switch (emerge iproute2 first).
For all your other networking needs see /etc/conf.d/net.example. You can do Bridging, TUN/TAP, VLANS, PPPoE and more via this init script which AFAIK is way ahead of any other distro and about time that you can do all this stuff in one place, rather than scattering files around /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and all that cobblers.
Cheers
Jon
| hnaparst wrote: | Well, that worked well. Is that syntax documented anywhere?
This is your first day in the Gentoo forum? You seem to be doing pretty well. Much better than I was on my first day!
Harold |
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UberLord
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Joined: 18 Sep 2003
Posts: 6835
Location: Blighty
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:20 am Post subject: Re: tres bien |
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| gerdesj wrote: |
routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.100.1"
"192.168.100/24 dev eth0"
"172.16/16 via 192.168.100.1"
"172.18/16 via 192.168.100.1"
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Do you need that dev eth0 on the 2nd line?
| Quote: | | For all your other networking needs see /etc/conf.d/net.example. You can do Bridging, TUN/TAP, VLANS, PPPoE and more via this init script which AFAIK is way ahead of any other distro and about time that you can do all this stuff in one place, rather than scattering files around /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and all that cobblers. |
Thanks for the compliment 
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gerdesj
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Location: Yeovil, Somerset, UK
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 11:11 am Post subject: Re: tres bien |
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| UberLord wrote: | | gerdesj wrote: |
routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.100.1"
"192.168.100/24 dev eth0"
"172.16/16 via 192.168.100.1"
"172.18/16 via 192.168.100.1"
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Do you need that dev eth0 on the 2nd line?
| Quote: | | For all your other networking needs see /etc/conf.d/net.example. You can do Bridging, TUN/TAP, VLANS, PPPoE and more via this init script which AFAIK is way ahead of any other distro and about time that you can do all this stuff in one place, rather than scattering files around /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and all that cobblers. |
Thanks for the compliment |
No it isn't necessary, the initscript (I presume) should put that in itself but I just put it there for completeness. I don't get a SIOBLAHBLAH error with it in there but on reflection, remove it. |
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