Say, I have a computer with only one net interface, and I have a adsl connection to that interface, Of course I want this computer to be a gateway for my home network. But, the baselayout won't set ip address to that interface if I set config_eth0=( "adsl" ) to /etc/conf.d/net . This will cause a big problem, I can not set nor get the ip address to the nic, thus I can not set it as a gateway. A easy solve is to manually start the adsl connection, But , this is not a good solution. If one had to do this, then what is the statement config_eth0=("adsl") for?? So, I want to know if this can be done in next version of baselayout?
works fine for me provide `emerge info` along with some more info and re-open
no need to post emerge info, just check this: steve steve # grep config_eth0 /etc/conf.d/net ... config_eth0=( "192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" ) ... config_eth0=( "adsl" ) ... I set the eth0 to 192.168.0.1 then check the ifconfig output steve steve # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ED:5C:84:C1 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:596 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:867 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:450624 (440.0 Kb) TX bytes:116550 (113.8 Kb) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:6704 (6.5 Kb) TX bytes:6704 (6.5 Kb) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:221.226.197.243 P-t-P:218.2.135.63 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 RX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:60099 (58.6 Kb) TX bytes:37790 (36.9 Kb) there is a adsl connection: ppp0, but where is the 192.168.0.1 ip address i set to eth0? the check the ping : steve steve # ping 192.168.0.1 PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1014ms eth0 is not set to 192.168.0.1, if eth0 have no ipaddress, How can I set it as a gateway of a network? if I set the wrong config, How can I set the config? the net config guide didn't told me anything about this.
you set the config_eth0 twice. naturally, at the end of /etc/conf.d/net execution, config_eth0 will have the value ( "adsl" ). probably you wanted to set it like this: ... config_eth0=( "192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" "adsl" ) ...
you need to post `emerge info` when you file a bug about baselayout because we often change code dramatically between branches in this case, we have no idea whether you're using baselayout 1.11.x or 1.12.x
Alin just pointed out the issue
sorry for the info, here it is. Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -DNDEBUG -fno-ident" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -DNDEBUG -fno-ident -fno-enforce-eh-specs -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.linuxforum.net/pub/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bdirect" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://owl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile authdaemond avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bmp bonobo bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cdr cjk crypt cscope ctype cups curl dbus directfb dlloader dmx dri dts dvd dvdr eds emacs-w3 emboss encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran freetds freetype gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint glitz glut gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal iconv idn imagemagick imlib immqt-bc ipv6 ithreads jack java javascript jikes joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit kdeenablefinal kerberos lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors mad maildir mailwrapper matroska memlimit mikmod mime mmap mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql mysqli nas ncurses nis nls nocardbus nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal openexr opengl pam pcmcia pcntl pcre pda pdflib perl php plotutils png pnp portaudio posix postgres ppds profile python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sasl sdl sftplogging skey slang slp sndfile snmp soap socks5 speex spell sqlite sse ssl svg svga symlink tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vhosts vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xpm xprint xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard input_devices_joystick input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_none" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LINGUAS Alin Nastac is right, the problem is the config problem. And also, I think this should be right in the installation handbook. Because there must be some people have the same problem as mine.
gentooers should at least know how to set a variable in a bash script. you can't expect to learn everything there is to know about Unix systems from a handbook.
