Hi. On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 05:35:49PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 27 October 2018 14:37:38 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 01:13:07PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Then give me an install that can be made to work in a hosts file > > > defined local network that can accept a gateway statement in its > > > e/n/i file. The default install does NOT accept it until the network > > > has been brought up. > > > > In another news, you cannot have a default gateway unless it's > > reachable according to existing routing table. > > Its reachable, and listed in every hosts file here by both name and > address.
Not before you bring up any non-local network interface. > > The reason is simple - a default gateway is not 'global', the kernel > > must decide with interface to attach to a default gateway route. > > So you bring a network interface up, add an address to it and only > > then configure a default gateway. > > Then how does one guarantee its done in that order? By using ifupdown, for instance. > And what was changed > to prevent its working in the newer way of doing things? ifupdown works for me that way since etch was testing. If it does not - there's always troubleshooting in form of 'ifup -v'. Reco
