Julie, Bering-uClibc 2.3 uses a newer and different version of ifupdown (the one from busybox). The difference is that the one from Bering 1.2 only supported masklen and the one from Bering-uClibc only netmask. The older ifupdown used a private non standard patch, hence the difference.
Eric > I "guessed" it. Bering 1.2 allowed masklen, but Bering 2.3 used > netmask only. I figured couldn't hurt to try and switch notations. > > I suspect other ppl might assume like I did that the masklen notation > still worked. Tha'ts why I posted this little experience of mine. > > > --jsl > > > > Arne Bernin wrote: > > >> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:12 -0700, Julie S. Lin wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi >>> >>> >>> I had the same problem, I configured my three cards in >>> /etc/network/interfaces as follows >>> but I got ifup -a error "Don't seem to have all the variables for >>> eth0, eth1, eth1" when I used masklen notation, if I use netmask, it >>> works! >>> >>> >>> >> >> please use netmask. it seems that masklen is not supported, where did >> you read about it (is it in the example /etc/network file ?) >> >> >> >>> auto eth1 (internal interface) iface eth1 inet static address >>> 192.168.0.1 >>> #masklen 24 >>> netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 >>> >>> >>> Julie >>> >>> >>> >> >> --arne >> >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
