it is driving me crazy why a seemingly identical command
is not correctly executed in these two cases. does anyone
understand the problem?
i have no problem with the gateway setting. perhaps you inadvertantly
munged or removed the GATEWAY_IFNAME definition, which is required.
arguably it should default on a one interface machine, but it doesn't.
maybe you deleted the newline at the end of the file, e.g.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:23:51PM -0800, Matthew Schalit wrote:
> Mark Seiden wrote:
> >
> > i had this problem also.
> >
> > i still don't understand why it's happening.
> >
> > you might notice that i've added an IF_BROADCAST variable as
> > well to network.conf...
> >
> > i dare say that with a class c netmask and a class a address ifconfig
> > will get your broadcast address wrong, also.
> >
> > here's a bit of code that works around in /etc/init.d/network
> >
> > echo -n "network: bringing $STATE interface $IFNAME on $IPADDR"
> > [ -n "$MASK" ] && echo -n " with netmask $MASK"
> > [ -n "$BROADCAST" ] && echo -n " with broadcast address $BROADCAST"
> > [ -n "$ETHER" ] && echo -n " (with hardware address $ETHER)"
> > echo
> >
> > # what a weird bug: ifconfig complains "netmask... unknown host".
> > # ifconfig $IFNAME $IPADDR ${MASK:+netmask $MASK} ${ETHER:+hw $ETHER}
>${BROADCAST:+broadcast $BROADCAST} $STATE
> > # but this works:
> > echo ifconfig $IFNAME $IPADDR ${MASK:+netmask $MASK} ${ETHER:+hw $ETHER}
>${BROADCAST:+broadcast $BROADCAST} $STATE | sh
> > }
> >
>
>
>
>
> Thanks for the workaround ideas, Mark.
> Have you noticed that the default gateway is not getting
> added to the routing table? It wasn't in mine even
> though it was entered in /etc/network.conf. I haven't
> had time to track it down though.
>
> Matthew
>
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