Re: route command baffles me.

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:00:50 +0000 (UTC), Jay G. Scott <gl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
| on solaris, i get along just fine. i set my default route
| and it works. for some reason things never go so smoothly
| for me on linux. my "test" linux box is working, but
| it's "completely ordinary."
|
| possibly my problem is that for the first time, i'm hooking
| ripped, the new machine, to an 802.1q trunk. the box has two PHYSICAL
| enets on it. for the moment, i only want to use eth0.
|
| is there something equivalent to solaris' unplumb, so that
| i can tell eth1 to drop dead? ie, w/o a reboot?
| i assume if i rename the ifup (or whatever it is) script
| and reboot it'll go away.
|
| i did
| vconfig add eth0 2
|
| now, if i want the machine to respond to 10.20.30.40
| well, frankly, what do i do? i read the man page for vconfig,
| ifconfig, web pages on 802.1q, and so on, but when i try to
| ping the gateway on 10.20 i always get destinatino host
| unreachable. what do i WANT my netstat -nr output to look like?
| i feel like i've tried all reasonable combinations, and same
| thing every time.
|
| just as a side point, there's always that 169.254.0.0 route,
| can one safely get rid of that? what's it for?
|
| sorry if i'm grumpy. i'm frustrated. this ought to be simple
| but i'm getting nowhere.


If there is no cable connected to the interface, then installing ifplugd
should let the boot process skip configuring that interface.

It certainly worked that way for me, with my 2 on-board interfaces.


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