On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Jonathan Callen <jcal...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 07/25/2013 11:42 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Michael Hampicke <m...@hadt.biz> >> wrote: >>> What do you use - and what are the benefits of your method? >> >> I use the following unit in one of my servers: >> >> # >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> [Unit] >> Description=Static network service >> After=local-fs.target >> Documentation=man:ifconfig(8) >> Documentation=man:route(8) >> >> [Service] >> Type=oneshot >> RemainAfterExit=yes >> ExecStart=/bin/ifconfig <DEVICE> <IP> broadcast <BCAST> netmask > <NETMASK> up >> ExecStart=/bin/route add default gw <GW> <DEVICE> >> # > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > I would recommend replacing those two commands with: > > ExecStart=/bin/ip addr add <IP>/<CIDR> dev <DEVICE> > ExecStart=/bin/ip route add default via <GW> dev <DEVICE> > > This uses the newer iproute2 infrastructure, which is supposed to > replace the deprecated net-tools package (last official release was in > 2001). > > Note also that this uses the CIDR notation for IP addresses. If you > were previously using "ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.5 broadcast > 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0", you can simply say "ip addr add > 192.168.1.5/24 dev eth0" which calculates both netmask and broadcast > from the "/24" (which means the upper 24 bits are used).
Thanks for the heads up. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
