From: Arne Bernin Sent: March 17, 2005 02:54 > > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:48 -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > Hi All: > > > Hi Hugh! >
Hi Arne: > > I am a new user to Leaf Bering and I am in the process of replacing > > an > > existing IPCHAINS based firewall with a Bering/Shorewall based > > system. > > I have spent the last couple of week reviewing the docs and now I am > > starting to configure the new system and have a couple of questions. > > > bering or bering-uclibc ? > Strait bering. > > 1. In the LEAF Bering Installation Guide section 8.1 (Interfaces > > File) there are links for the interfaces man page and the Debian > > network interfaces examples, neither of which appear to work. Can > > someone provide working links or a pointer to another source for > > the information? > > > check out the bering-uclibc installation guide, it has at least the > correct links to the man pages... > That works and gives me more to work with. > > 2. I am looking to add alias IP addresses for the external interface. > > I was planning on adding them to the /etc/init.d/networking file > > but I wanted find out if this is the recommended approach or > > should I be looking at something different? > > > > change /etc/network/interfaces, you don't have to touch the init.d > script. > > just add something like: > auto eth0:0 > iface eth0:0 iface static > address <whatever> (e.g. 192.16.1.1) > netmask <whatever> (e.g. 255.255.255.0) > > and replace eth0 with whatever your external interface may be. > Should do it... > That is a much better approach than I was planning. Thanks, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
