did I do this right? (linux networking)

[CTho9305]

its on an old machine, so no plug'n'pray.
after about an hour of trial & error (plus watching a movie ) I created a script that does the following things that you have to run on boot:

1. modprobe eexpress io=0x200 (found the io by trial and error)
2. ifconfig <ip> netmask <subnet> eth0
3. route add <gateway ip>
4. route add default gw <gateway ip>

leaving out step 3 results in the computer not being able to reach anything past the gateway. I assume that step 3 tells it the static route to the gateway or something?

 

[manly]

That looks about right to me. Most distros script all this stuff for you; you just have to use some configuration tool to choose your networking device, and basic IP configuration (i.e. static addressing or DHCP client).

As far as the default gateway, there has to be an existing route to get to the default gateway IP before you can insert the default route.

So for example, step 3 can either be a route to a network or a host. You probably already have, but read the TCP/IP HOWTO to brush up on these topics.. it's a great intro (just skip all the archaic hardware sections).

 

[thornc]

what distro??
Redhat/Mandrake has the configuration file /etc/sysconfig/network to handle this, slackware uses
one rc script.
Don't know how debian, suse do it but it shouldn't be very different!

 

[CTho9305]

<< (just skip all the archaic hardware sections) >>


i'm using lots of archaic hardware

anyway, its redhat 5.2, but I must be incompetent cause I can't figure out how to get it to do this itself. I mean, i could move this to /etc/rc.d/rc3.d or something, but that isn't really the right way. anyway, the existing networkscripts just say usage: "ifup <device>" if I use eth0 (same for the others like ifup-routes), but work if I use lo, so something isn't recognizing eth0's existence properly o

 

[manly]

I'm probably wrong since I haven't used Red Hat 5.2 (or any version for that matter) in ages, but the command line tool to configure your network settings is surprisingly enough called

netcfg

 

[Buddha Bart]

check out my reply in this thread here

you need to emulate the two commands in the "Token Ring" section (but obviously it would be an ethernet card for you)

try and see if you can find the "ifup" command you mentioned somewhere and take a look at it. Its probably a small shell script that just does what my inet1 does.

bart

 

[thornc]

Add a line to /etc/conf.modules with this:
alias eexpress eth0
options eexpress io=0x200

Then check the /etc/sysconfig/network file.
This is the file that if-up uses to read the configuration...