In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ian Lynagh wrote: > >: >: Hi all! >: >: I am having a problem with setting my network up. >: I basically want to run the following commands at bootup: >: ifconfig eth0:0 1.1.1.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 1.255.255.255 >: route add -net 1.0.0.0 dev eth0:0 > >I'm not sure what you're trying to do here, but are you really running a >full Class A on one segment? That seems, well, illogical to me :) We >use 10.x.x.x private IP space all the time, but never with a mask >shorter than 255.255.252.0.
*I* am using 192.168.37.* for my home LAN. However, my friends have taken it upon themselves to use 1.*.*.* :-( I have convinced, I beleieve, one of them to change and the others should follow. However, in his own words "I don't want a class C network! Class A sounds much cooler!". Sometimes I dispair... >I usually just edit /etc/init.d/network if I want interface changes, or >have that file source or call the script that has the changes. I don't >know if editing /etc/init.d/network is evil or not; I don't think it is >:) That way, the script is called at the appropriate time; the rc.d >links are already there for you. I just gave that a try, but I got the same problem :-( What I have done instead is put IansStuff in /etc/init.d/ and made a symlink /etc/rc2.d/S99IansStuff to it. This seems to work fine :-) >I assume you got a kernel with IP Aliasing linked in or compiled as a >module. Yup, I have it listed in /etc/modules Thanks Ian -- Ian Lynagh - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.sol.no/~balchen/igloo/ Stick: A boomerang that doesn't work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
