On Fri, 16 Aug 1996 23:31:49 PDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello; > > After messing up my XDM and essentially locking myself > out of my system for a while, I have become interested > in setting up my ethernet card from a startup script. > > Does one put the ifconfig and route statements in the usual > rc.inet1 and reference it somehow from rc6.d, or what? > > I appreciate any suggestions here; the NET-2 HOWTO seems to be > geared toward the Slackware kind of system.
In a Debian system, these statements should go into /etc/init.d/network. It contains a small script to be customized. Here's a copy of mine: #!/bin/sh ifconfig lo localhost route add -net localnet IPADDR=207.104.147.129 NETMASK=255.255.255.248 NETWORK=207.104.147.128 BROADCAST=207.104.147.136 GATEWAY=none INTERFACE=dummy0 [ $INTERFACE != none ] && \ ifconfig $INTERFACE ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} &&\ route add -net ${NETWORK} [ $GATEWAY != none ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 Note that I have no default gateway (diald sets up its own). Phil.