In Section 8.c, "Networking Information", there is a description of how to configure for multiple NICs (Code listing 16: Creating extra initscripts). It is my experience that a symlink named net.eth1 does not work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up a machine with multiple NICs (2 of them, say: eth0 and eth1) 2. `./net.eth0 start' to start eth0 3. `ln -s net.eth0 net.eth1' as the Handbook suggests 4. `./net.eth1 start' to try and start eth1 too Actual Results: WARNING: "net.eth0" has already been started a check with `ifconfig' reveals that eth1 was not started Expected Results: eth1 started My workaround is to make a copy instead of a symlink. That is, `cp -p net.eth0 net.eth1'. The `./net.eth1 start' command will now work. The net.eth1 documentation issue is also present in <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml>. ----------- Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r8-viveka-011) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r8-viveka-011 i586 Pentium 75 - 200 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.8p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i586 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i586 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://gentoo.linux.no/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm arts avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gpm gtk imlib jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pdflib png qt quicktime sdl slang spell svga truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb readline java tcpd pam ssl perl python"
rather than doing a softlink why not do a hardlink ? does that work correctly ?
As discussed in #29512, this works for me and others. However, apparently it is a random issue: for some it works, for others it doesn't. I'm handing this over to azarah, perhaps he can find out why it works on some systems and not on others?
Because he is using a really old baselayout without support.
Okay, that's settled :) Rabe, please update your baselayout to the latest available one :)
