Hi I'm using gentoo for years. With the net layout one thing is missing: arp configuration. All lines (all with gentoo firewalls) of my company need an arp entry in order to connect to the dsl modems. 1) I suggest either an: arp_eth* line in /etc/conf/net or a more generic: execute_eth* line where you can put in any script to be run after ifconfig. 2) With the new base layout every /etc/init.d/net* is a symlink to net.lo, which is quite strange. Make everything a symlink to /etc/init.d/net. This is quite logical because the config is in /etc/conf/net. net.lo is for loopback only... Thanks!
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I´d suggest that you explore /etc/conf.d/net.example file - the "Advanced Configuration" section has preup(), postup(), predown() and postdown() funtions in there with some simple examples, maybe that´s what you need.
review the 'MAC changer' section of /etc/conf.d/net.example also as Jakub said, see the pre/post functions
works thanks. sorry i was looking for ARP keywords which i did not find in relation with gentoo...
