On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 07:20:43PM -0800, Russell Senior wrote:

> Russell> I just tried Jason's incantation and it works on my Alix
> Russell> (same board as yours, the three-port Alix.2d3).
> 
> I also just tried the /etc/config/network:
> 
> config interface wan
>         option ifname   eth0
>         option macaddr  00:0b:ad:c0:ff:ee
>         option proto    dhcp
> 
> and that works for me, too.

Got it!

And that was the clue - you use eth0 for the WAN port, and that
is probably the first stanza in /etc/config/network .  For some
reason I started with a config script that had eth1 as the WAN
port, and since the other ports were bridged to it, the
"ifconfig eth1 hw ..." command inside /lib/network/config.sh
was silently failing with a SIOCSIFHWADDR error.  After adding
some echo statements and other instrumentation, I found it.  

If the Right Thing To Do is to use eth0 for the WAN and eth1 for
the LAN and eth2 for the DMZ, then I will do the same. 

Thanks for providing a hint.

Keith

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