Hi Boyd, Tks for your advice.
> I thought the new baselayout handled > pppoe (and other ppp connections) just like normal connections: > 1. Configure in /etc/conf.d/net /etc/conf.d/net is a file # cat /etc/conf.d/net config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.0.255" ) routes_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.0.1" ) config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) > 2. Symlink net.$IFACE to net.lo net.lo is on /etc/init.d/ What is "net.$IFACE"? Tks. B.R. SL 3. Start/Stop/Query via /etc/init.d/net.$IFACE I could be thinking about testing (since I run ~amd64) and this may not apply to stable, but have a look at /etc/conf.d/net.example and make sure your configuration is correct. If you think it is correct, please provide the output of: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start and grep -Ev '^[[:space:]]*(#|$)' /etc/conf.d/net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
