Don't feel bad Alan - for me, also this is very unclear. I upgraded baselayout then got the message my conf.d/net was using deprecated syntax so I went to net.example, copied it to net which is symlinked to net.eth0 (after backing up<G>). I then went through the file and found that it appears iproute2 is now preferred although there are no man pages or docs and it got installed on my system. I use static so I updated the address with the new function per the in-file instructions and set the route. I restarted net.eth0 and immediately lost internet access - I had pop and https but no news or regular http or sync! After much hassle all I did was comment out some nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf and left a couple more and it worked again. To be honest I can't say the upgrade was to blame - I'm checking into the nameservers having issues.
However, the differences between the old and new or what the new is supposed to do better is very unclear. > > From: Alan Mckinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/08/21 Mon AM 09:43:17 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/conf.d/net > > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 10:05 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > ยท Alan Mckinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I read it, but it doesn't deny anything - it simply doesn't mention > iface_* at all. Maybe iface_* is deprecated, but I've used it since > 2005.0 and that's what the docs said then. I haven't seen any updates > about it either. The baselayout ebuild has several checks at the end for > old deprecated files and veriables, but iface_* isn't one of them. > > I'm using baselayout-1.12.4-r6 > > alan > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
