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kriz

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Registered: 2009-06-29

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help me making a deamon script for a specific eth0 configuration

hi
my idea is to have a daemon script for configuring my eth0 device with specific settings to connect to my xbox.
i"ve got no idea on how to wirite a daemon script, so i hope to get some help from the community

eth0 sould have:

192.168.1.33  as ip
255.255.255.0 as netmask
192.168.1.1.55  as gateway

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karol

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Re: help me making a deamon script for a specific eth0 configuration

'man ifconfig' maybe?

Edit: I still haven't may daily fix of coffee, but "192.168.1.1.55  as gateway" shows 5 numbers. IIRC gateway is just an IP, so there should be 4.

Last edited by karol (2010-08-08 13:14:59)

jac

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Re: help me making a deamon script for a specific eth0 configuration

The network daemon that comes with Arch can handle all of this. There are examples in rc.conf:

#Static IP example
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"

(I think it runs ifconfig anyway, so if you need more options do as karol suggested and man ifconfig)

Last edited by jac (2010-08-08 15:45:38)

Inxsible

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Re: help me making a deamon script for a specific eth0 configuration

you could also just use netcfg which does all that you want.

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kriz

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Re: help me making a deamon script for a specific eth0 configuration

i k'no its possible with network deamon, but its a great investement to uncomment everytime my rc.conf, then /etc/rc.d/network start...
i"m using by default my wireless to connect to internet

don't want to use netcfg. want something like wpa_auto does for wireless conectons, just for eth0 specific settings

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karol

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Re: help me making a deamon script for a specific eth0 configuration

i k'no its possible with network deamon, but its a great investement to uncomment everytime my rc.conf, then /etc/rc.d/network start...
i"m using by default my wireless to connect to internet

don't want to use netcfg. want something like wpa_auto does for wireless conectons, just for eth0 specific settings

You need to uncomment it once and set the correct values. That's it.

Noble

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Registered: 2010-06-01

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Re: help me making a deamon script for a specific eth0 configuration

You will use route to set the gateway, and ifconfig to set the IP

As root run:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.33 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0

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