Re: My network script running before eth0 is created
In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980601185343.1176A-100000@kepler.midco.net>,
Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net> writes
>On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ian Lynagh wrote:
>
>:
>: Hi all!
>:
>: I am having a problem with setting my network up.
>: I basically want to run the following commands at bootup:
>: ifconfig eth0:0 1.1.1.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 1.255.255.255
>: route add -net 1.0.0.0 dev eth0:0
>
>I'm not sure what you're trying to do here, but are you really running a
>full Class A on one segment? That seems, well, illogical to me :) We
>use 10.x.x.x private IP space all the time, but never with a mask
>shorter than 255.255.252.0.
*I* am using 192.168.37.* for my home LAN.
However, my friends have taken it upon themselves to use 1.*.*.* :-(
I have convinced, I beleieve, one of them to change and the others
should follow. However, in his own words "I don't want a class C
network! Class A sounds much cooler!". Sometimes I dispair...
>I usually just edit /etc/init.d/network if I want interface changes, or
>have that file source or call the script that has the changes. I don't
>know if editing /etc/init.d/network is evil or not; I don't think it is
>:) That way, the script is called at the appropriate time; the rc.d
>links are already there for you.
I just gave that a try, but I got the same problem :-(
What I have done instead is put IansStuff in /etc/init.d/
and made a symlink /etc/rc2.d/S99IansStuff to it. This seems
to work fine :-)
>I assume you got a kernel with IP Aliasing linked in or compiled as a
>module.
Yup, I have it listed in /etc/modules
Thanks
Ian
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