I do it in the /etc/conf.d/net. "default gw 192.168.0.1" is the entry and it goes in fine. however, the entry I have is "routes_eth0" not "route_eth0".
On Sunday 06 November 2005 16:25, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > Hello, > > I had tried Gentoo two years ago and now I'm back after some time using a > Debian derivate (is still my main system for the time being). > > I spent quite a time emerging and compiling from a stage 2 and most things > seem to work well. There are two little things that don't work just the way > I'd like however and I could not figure out how to cure them so far: > > - I have a Ti4200 Nvidia card. I compiled my kernel with genkernel > --configure and (I think) did everything required to have framebuffer > support but I can't get a splash screen to work. Well, that's not important > so I go for a text boot, no problem, but I'd love to have a good > information about > framebuffers.... anyone know where I should look? > > - my main problem was that, while my netwrok would start OK, the default > gateway would not be set, I had to do it by hand. The informations I found > were about /etc/conf.d/net but this file seems ok: > > config_eth0=( "192.168.1.31 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) > route_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.1.51" ) > > other sources talked from an /etc/conf.d/route , but that file does not > exist and I have no clue as to its syntax. > > What I did now was to add he following into local.start: > > route add default gateway <IP> > > But I think this is not the best way to do. Were should I put that default > gateway information so that it works? > > Thierry > > -- > The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a > capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the > safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? > Frank Zappa -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
