According to the Handbook Part 4 Ch 3: 3.b. Interface Handlers We provide two interface handlers presently: ifconfig and iproute2. You need one of these to do any kind of network configuration. ifconfig is the current Gentoo default and it's included in the system profile. iproute2 is a more powerful and flexible package, but it's not included by default. That's sort of misleading. I think it needs to explain there are two different "defaults": 1) what is installed by default 2) what is used by default if both are installed. The modular networking infrastructure will use iproute2 over ifconfig unless a) the user overrides the default of iproute2 by specifying "modules=ifconfig" or b) iproute2 is not installed. From /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.7.0/net.example: ############################################################################## # INTERFACE HANDLERS # # We provide two interface handlers presently: ifconfig and iproute2. # You need one of these to do any kind of network configuration. # For ifconfig support, emerge sys-apps/net-tools # For iproute2 support, emerge sys-apps/iproute2 # # If you don't specify an interface then we prefer iproute2 if it's installed # To prefer ifconfig over iproute2 #modules="ifconfig" I have both ifconfig and iproute2 installed and read the handbook as meaning that ifconfig would be used by default. This resulted in some wasted time trying to troubleshoot my network configuration. Once I realized that iproute2 is preferred by default, I was able to figure things out. Reproducible: Always
Thanks! I've updated the document in CVS so it should show up in an hour or so on the site.
