On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 14:16, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > ---------- quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC ---------- > > >> On debian it is in /etc/network/interfaces > > >> on FreeBSD it is in /etc/rc.conf > > >> > > >> What about gentoo? > > > > > > /etc/conf.d/net > > That's one of the few things I don't like in the Linux world, every distro > puts it's config stuff into different files, network configuration is a > good example. > > Sure, someone could say: "and, why not?" > Agreed, but I think it would be great if all (I know, _all_ is impossible) > distros would put at least some basic config into same files under same > location. > > I would say I know how to handle Linux for most of the time, but when I > have to work on a machine with an "other" distro, I have to spend time to > search for some config files, that's odd :(
Yeah, I ran into this a few days ago when I wanted to change eth0 from DHCP to a private/static IP. Having used Debian for a couple of years, I wasn't sure if the format and location of the ethX config files they used was "standard" or not. In fact, I still don't know... Debian puts the info in /etc/network/interfaces. The format is rather simple and looks like this: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface # automatically added when upgrading auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian # installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) # automatically added when upgrading auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 Regards Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
