On Saturday 27 December 2003 12:35 pm, Sharrea Day wrote: > IIRC, you only need GATEWAYDEV if you use a dialup modem (as I do). Mine > goes:
Not entirely correct... > > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network > NETWORKING=yes > GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 > HOSTNAME=tbird.nofish.net.nz > I have a machine here with both a network card and a wireless card in it. The wireless card is assigned eth0 and the NEthernet card is assigned eth1. I have set linux not to start either interface at boot time and have a series of menu entries in the main menu which allow me to bring either interface up or down as I wish. Here is an example of the commands I use in the main menu for eth1 - /usr/sbin/usernetctl eth1 up ( this menu entry brings the interface up) /usr/sbin/usernetctl eth1 down (this menu entry brings it down) Change the interface designator as appropriate for the interface you want to control. I have four of these entries to allow for control of the two interfaces. Note that the variable USERCTL=yes must be present in the ifcfg file for the interface you wish to control in this way. Here is my ifcfg-eth1 file - DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.98 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=no GATEWAYDEV=eth1 TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=yes You'll see the USERCTL needed to allow the user to control the interface, and the GATEWAYDEV specifying this interface as the gateway device when it is active. I have found this a handy way to select the interface I wish to use from the main menu of KDE. Rick Kunath
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