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Zarathustra[H]
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I'm almost sure this is a dep, but searching the forums doesnt help me, casue I dont know exactly what to search for, so please bear with me on this one...
In order to get the inet to work on my gentoo install I had to set the following strings:
iface_eth0="XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX broadcast XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask XXX.XXX.XXX.X"
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gateway="eth0/XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX"
Now I dont know what all these mean except the first one which is my IP adress, but it wouldnt work without all of them there.
I originally got these numbers by looking at my dual boot windows winipcfg screen. (it assigned all of these automatically...
Now here is where my real problem starts. I am converting a Red Hat 7.3 box of mine into a Gentoo box, but I can only find the numbers for the iface string above. (I get these from ifconfig) I cant seem to find the gateway info anywhere.
Redhat doesnt seem, to have a /etc/conf.d/net file like gentoo does, (heck it doesnt even have the /etc/conf.d dir)
Anyone have any clue on how I can find out what the default gateway is?
Thanks,
Matt
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How do you connect to the internet? Is it via another computer? If it is, then you are using a gateway, thus you need to get it's IP address and put it in there.
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BlackBart
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easy method:
just specify the IP adress and let ifconfig sort out the defaults |
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Zarathustra[H]
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| BlackBart wrote: | easy method:
just specify the IP adress and let ifconfig sort out the defaults |
Hah! I knew there had to be an easier method...
to do that, do I just set:
iface_eth0="XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" ?
thanks,
Matt
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fifo
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| If you have a working Windows setup that can access the net, you can find out your gateway address by typing "ipconfig" at a command prompt. |
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kashani
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| Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 6:11 pm Post subject: Re: not that great with networking... |
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| Zarathustra[H] wrote: |
Now here is where my real problem starts. I am converting a Red Hat 7.3 box of mine into a Gentoo box, but I can only find the numbers for the iface string above. (I get these from ifconfig) I cant seem to find the gateway info anywhere.
Redhat doesnt seem, to have a /etc/conf.d/net file like gentoo does, (heck it doesnt even have the /etc/conf.d dir)
Anyone have any clue on how I can find out what the default gateway is?
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Redhat has /etc/sysconfig/ instead of /etc/conf.d/ The info you want is in one of two places in Redhat 7.3
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (assuming your main interface is eth0)
/etc/sysconfig/network
Check those two files and they should tell you what you need to know.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 8:44 am Post subject: Re: not that great with networking... |
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| Zarathustra[H] wrote: | I'm almost sure this is a dep, but searching the forums doesnt help me, casue I dont know exactly what to search for, so please bear with me on this one...
In order to get the inet to work on my gentoo install I had to set the following strings:
iface_eth0="XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX broadcast XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask XXX.XXX.XXX.X"
and
gateway="eth0/XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX"
Now I dont know what all these mean except the first one which is my IP adress, but it wouldnt work without all of them there.
I originally got these numbers by looking at my dual boot windows winipcfg screen. (it assigned all of these automatically...
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If windows received them automatically, so can Linux. Try running dhcpcd, like so:
You should see your interface configure automaticatlly (if you have a linksys or some other router, i.e. gateway, its most likely running a dhcp server too)
If you want this to occur on bootup automatically, just edit /etc/conf.d/net such that the only line not commented out is iface_eth0="dhcp"
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