On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: [Snip]
> Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way > by now on this modern of a version of debian to simply work with the > tools that control networking... There is: ifupdown > Command line is my preferred idiom, but anything would be a good > start. No - you do not want anything. > There must be a quick and easy way to start stop cleanly without major > study and scrutinizing of vast man pages or such. Some reading is unavoidable. In fact, it is essential. > Can anyone provide a simple step by step procedure? For what? You haven't descibed the network setup and what you want to achieve. > Another distro I've used worked with a simple > /etc/init.d/net.eth[0-9] start/stop/status > > And a brief and easily understood configuration in /etc/conf.d/net. > > Do we have anything similar? A basic underlying control mechanism > that supersedes any add-on gui bunkem? ifupdown. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120215215437.GB2869@desktop
