[ILUG] Still battling Gentoo!!

[Kevin Philp]

The best document for you is the Gentoo networking guide:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=1

To try to answer your question:
Gentoo uses /etc/conf.d/net to configure interfaces yours should probably be 
something like (straight out of Gentoo guide):

config_eth0=( "192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
routes_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.0.1" )

192.168.0.7 is the address of your network card
192.168.0.1 is where you are going to send packets to get out into the wide 
world - probably the ip address of your router.

You should have done:
ln -s net.lo net.eth0 in /etc/init.d

so when you reboot eth0 will be configured automatically.

If you reboot your machine and rerun 

route -n

hopefully your routing table will only have one gateway.




On Monday 20 March 2006 13:47, SnSmedia wrote:
>Thats sounds interesting, I think I remember setting lo to something not
>realising it at the time that it meant loopback. How would I solve that?
>----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Philp" <kevin at cybercolloids.net>
>To: <ilug at linux.ie>
>Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:01 PM
>Subject: Re: [ILUG] Still battling Gentoo!!
>
>> I am not an expert on routing but you appear to have your gateway set up
>
>both
>
>> eth0 and lo. This could be the route (sorry for pun) of your problem. Can
>> someone more knowledgeable confirm that the issue here is routing? You
>
>should
>
>> have one gateway only and that should be on the interface that connects
>
>you
>
>> to the rest of the world - probably eth0
>>
>> I looked at several machines here and I see one gateway entry for each
>
>machine
>
>> and its not on lo.
>>
>> On Monday 20 March 2006 12:06, SnSmedia wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >Thanks for getting back to me.
>> >To answer the other suggestions I got:
>> >*Yes I can ping the IP address of the card.
>> >*The result from route
>> >Destination    gateway    genmask            flags    metric    ref
>
>use
>
>> >  iface 192.168.1.0    *            255.255.255.0    U        0
>
>0
>
>> >    0        eth0 loopback        localhost    255.0.0.0        UG
>
>0
>
>> >           0    0        lo default            192.168.1.1    0.0.0.0
>> > UG        0            0    0        eth0 *I do not have a host.conf
>
>file
>
>> > and resolv.conf is exactly the same as live cd resolv.conf
>> >
>> >I have gone over my net file and I had made a couple of spelling mistakes
>> > but I fixed them and rebooted but still no joy. I used genkernel so
>> > forcedeth is part of kernel. I can ping from the live cd no prob. I have
>> > set the IP to a static one, I did not emerge dhcp if that makes a
>> > difference. Rapidly running out of hair!!--
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