Re: Network Cards
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:42:35PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote
> Jay Kelly wrote:
> >
> > I have a quick qestion, I want my nic cards (eth0 and eth1) to keep the
> > setting I configure such as ip, netmask after rebooting. Each time I reboot
> > eth1 dumps all the information I put in the ifconfig setup. How can I get it
> > to store and keep the information for both nic cards?
>
> I find on my frozen (potato) installation on a sparc the file
> /etc/network/interfaces, described in `man interfaces`.
>
On slink it's /etc/init.d/network, which is set up nicely
IFF you identify and configure your network card during
installation. A fairly standard example is attached;
if you don't have one customise this one then place it
in /etc/init.d and run
# chmod a+rx /etc/init.d/network
# update-rc.d network start 40 S .
John P.
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#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=192.168.113.106
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.113.0
BROADCAST=192.168.113.255
GATEWAY=192.168.113.110
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
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