On Saturday 03 Aug 2013 06:52:46 Harry Putnam wrote: > I was off gentoo for a few mnths... apparently something has changed > in the naming of the network devices. > > So far I've read several accounts of it... but the install handbook > has apparently not been brought up to date. > > Doing a fresh install, and following the contents of the manual > concerning conf.d/net... is not working, of course. > > Renaming the device in /etc/init.d to net.enp0s3 and using that name > in conf.d/net doesn't work either. At least not during boot. > > I can start the network by hand with /etc/init.d/net.enp0s3 start > > No problems there. But what, exactly, is supposed to go in > conf.d/net? > > I've found quite a lot of confusing information on google but not a > solution that works for me. > > If I start the network by hand as above then things like sshd blow up > from trying to restart them again and using the wrong names. > > Can someone point me to concise documentation about how this new setup > is supposed to work?
In /etc/conf.d/net you should replace the previously named eth0 directives to your new NIC name, e.g. instead of: config_eth0="dhcp" you will use the new name: config_enp0s3="dhcp" and so on. For more details on the parameters used look at: /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.11.8/net.example.bz2 -- Regards, Mick
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