On 2012-01-17, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6=1
>> The next question is what do I put in the Gentoo network configuration >> file (/etc/conf.d/net) to get that result (eth2 up with no IP >> addresses). >> > > /etc/sysctl.conf > > net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6=1 Well that's just too simple and obvious. I put a sysctl command in a preup() function in conf.d/net, and that worked, but it's definitly the wrong way to do it. After putting the above line in sysctl.conf (and removing my preup() function), everything worked as expected except that I had to manually start the interface with the command "/etc/init.d/net.eth2 start". Google told me to fix that by using rc-update to add net.eth2 to the default runlevel. Everything's tickety-boo now, but I don't remember have to do that last step in the past when I added a network interface -- all I had to do was create the symlink from net.<whatever> to net.lo. Is the rc-update runlevel stuff new? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! BARBARA STANWYCK makes at me nervous!! gmail.com