On Friday 22 November 2002 04:18, David B Harris wrote:
> On 21 Nov 2002 19:11:33 -0600
>
> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "David" == David B Harris <David> writes:
> >
> > David> You need to edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, to make it use
> > David> ifupdown; it refers to it as "Debian's network
> > David> setup". Basically, you need to make sure all the variables
> > David> in that file are either empty or set to "n". Why this isn't
> > David> the default, I've no idea. (Be sure not to forget the 'auto
> > David> eth0:0' line in /etc/network/intefaces).
> >
> > Hmmmm? I've never needed to do this. The default PCMCIA installation
> > always used ifup/ifdown before trying anything else. I just installed
> > Woody last night on a laptop, so I'm sure I did not have to do this.
>
> Can you attach your /etc/network/interfaces for my own edification? :)
Sure. The auto thing is a 'no go' though, because it inits the interface at
bootup, and they only should be inited at pcmcia-detection of the eth0
interface.
Here's my /etc/network/interfaces:
--------------snip---------------------
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
installation
# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.22
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
# up /sbin/ifup eth0:0
# down /sbin/ifdown eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
address 10.216.10.123
netmask 255.255.0.0
network 10.216.10.0
broadcast 10.216.10.255
gateway 10.216.0.1
--------------snip---------------------
I tried using this up/down thing, but you can't call ifup/ifdown from within
the interfaces script (so I've experienced) because it seems to cause a
deadlock where ifup/ifdown hangs and does exactly nothing.
DK
