On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:37:33 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:33 AM, pat <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've installed Gentoo into VirtualBox. I want it to has static IP address
> > and
> > I've followed Hand book instructions and the OpenRC/net.example. After
> > reboot
> > there's a warning: "WARNING: net.lo has already been started" and each
> > network
> > depending service failes to start with: "<service_name>: waiting for
> > net.eth0
> > (51)"; where the 51 is a time which decrements to 0.
> >
> > I've searched net, but without success :-\
> >
> > Can someone help me? The installation is fresh one.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Pat
>
> I have a 32-bit Gentoo Virtualbox VM where I am actually sending this
> email from. No problems with having a static IP:
>
> gentoo-32b ~ # ifconfig -a
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:d4:6a:35
> inet addr:192.168.1.125 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fed4:6a35/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:10493 (10.2 KiB) TX bytes:9152 (8.9 KiB)
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
> sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
> NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
> gentoo-32b ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net
> net network
> gentoo-32b ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net
> # This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
> # scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
> # please review /usr/share/doc/openrc*/net.example* and save your
> configuration
> # in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
>
> config_eth0="192.168.1.125 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.1"
> gentoo-32b ~ #
>
> If it helps, I have the VM NEtwork settings set to Bridged Adapter.
>
> HTH,
> Mark
>
Hello,
I have bridged network too and my configuration looks similar to yours, but I
have 64-bit Gentoo.
Pat
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