On 16/04/10 19:16, Maginot Junior wrote: > Hi. > > > > I'm wondering if anybody knows how to make my lfs system automatically > get ip when we plug the ethernet cable. If the system boots with the > cable connected then I get ip with dhcp, but after boot if I plug the > cable I have to manually run into the terminal to configure the > network. I notice that distros like Ubuntu detects when the cable is > plugged and automatically connects, how can I implement that on my > distro, is that anything to do with avahi? >
Do you need to use a dynamic IP address assigned by dhcp? I use static addresses and if I set up the addresses and then plug in the ethernet cable it works as you describe. The router has a dhcp daemon running on it which I could use but I find it more effective to set up the network with static addresses. That way all the computers on the network have an entry in /etc/hosts which makes it easy to use services like ssh. I use this bootscript on this computer #!/bin/bash ip addr add 192.168.1.5 dev eth0 ip link set eth0 up ip route add 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 192.168.1.1 is the router. 192.168.1.5 is this computer. My netbook is 192.168.1.4 and its bootscript looks like this #!/bin/bash ip addr add 192.168.1.4 dev wlan0 ip link set wlan0 up wpa_supplicant -B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -Dwext ip route add 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
