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
