Re: [gentoo-user] Why my wierd ifconfig setup won't work in iproute2... ever.

2015-03-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 08:36:42AM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote > I got my HDHomerun tuner around then too, but I decided back then > (without reading the manual) that I didn't want it on my "main" NIC, so > I bought an Intel pci-e NIC and dedicated the Homerun to it. > > Every once in a while I move

Re: [gentoo-user] Why my wierd ifconfig setup won't work in iproute2... ever.

2015-03-01 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 Mar 2015 00:33:11 Stroller wrote: > On Sun, 1 March 2015, at 3:22 am, Walter Dnes wrote: > > * My only option in an iproute2-only environment would be to get a 2nd > > > > NIC and attach the TV tuner to it. > > > > * My HDHomerun tuner is almost a museum-piece (spring of 2010). I

Re: [gentoo-user] Why my wierd ifconfig setup won't work in iproute2... ever.

2015-03-01 Thread Stroller
On Sun, 1 March 2015, at 3:22 am, Walter Dnes wrote: > > * My only option in an iproute2-only environment would be to get a 2nd > NIC and attach the TV tuner to it. > > * My HDHomerun tuner is almost a museum-piece (spring of 2010). I > figure that by the time ifconfig support is finally dep

Re: [gentoo-user] Why my wierd ifconfig setup won't work in iproute2... ever.

2015-03-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/28/2015 07:22 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> This document does not recommend that IPv4 Link-Local addresses and >> routable addresses be configured simultaneously on the same interface. > > * My only option in an iproute2-only environment would be to get a 2nd > NIC and attach the TV tuner to

Re: [gentoo-user] Why my wierd ifconfig setup won't work in iproute2... ever.

2015-03-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 10:22:03PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > * My HDHomerun tuner is almost a museum-piece (spring of 2010). I > figure that by the time ifconfig support is finally deprecated, I'll > be looking for a new tuner, rather than buying another NIC. See https://www.youtube.com/w

Re: [gentoo-user] Why my wierd ifconfig setup won't work in iproute2... ever.

2015-03-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 09:12:07AM +, Mick wrote > > Out of interest, you didn't say if you tried adding manually a route > in your /etc/conf.d/net for the link-local address space to see if > it works: > > routes_eth0=" > default via 192.168.123.254 > 169.254.0.0/16 via 169.254.1.1" <==Add

Re: [gentoo-user] Why my wierd ifconfig setup won't work in iproute2... ever.

2015-03-01 Thread Mick
On Sunday 01 Mar 2015 03:22:03 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:27:56PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > > > But if I include the line... > > > > modules="!iproute2" > > > > ...it works perfectly. What's frustrating is that it works under > > ifconfig, but not under iproute2. I'll che

[gentoo-user] Why my wierd ifconfig setup won't work in iproute2... ever.

2015-02-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:27:56PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > > But if I include the line... > > modules="!iproute2" > > ...it works perfectly. What's frustrating is that it works under > ifconfig, but not under iproute2. I'll check with the local linux > user group in town (mailing list) to s