From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glen Mabey Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 03:07:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] network scripts debian Message-Id: <20040805030708.GA5464@mabeys.dsl.aros.net> List-Id: References: <41100636.5050207@advocap.org> In-Reply-To: <41100636.5050207@advocap.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 04:40:06PM -0500, John McMonagle wrote: > Working at setting up some new firewalls with multi-path routing over 2 > isps. Doing it with debian sarge. > > Problem is the normal network scripts use ifconfig and route. > > In my tests I did a simple setup script. > > Feel like I am reinventing the wheel :-) > > Is it OK to use the network scripts to setup the interface and then > remove the routes ifconfig created and add any needed routes with ip > commands? > > Or am I best setting up the connections from scratch? After struggling with exactly this same issue myself, I simply created everything from scratch. Otherwise, I couldn't ever get it to work. > Also related is some of interfaces are dynamic. > I ran rewrite dhclient-script or just rebuild routes in > dhclient-exit-hooks.d. > > Also dhcpd-script gives > new_subnet_mask=......... > new_ip_address=.... > new_network_number=...... > interface=eth2 > > But for ip route need the length part of new_network_number/length > > Is there a simple way to calculate length from new_subnet_mask ? dunno about that one. Glen -- ****************************************************************** Glen W. Mabey Glen.Mabey@usu.edu http://mabeys.homelinux.com/glen/ ****************************************************************** _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/