rc.conf - no broadcast under eth0

George.Harmony · 2011-06-19 14:16:59

So I've upgraded to the rc.conf on my desktop. When i run

ifconfig

I get this output

 eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:29:D3:96:60  
          inet addr:192.168.1.50  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7380 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:4301995 (4.1 Mb)  TX bytes:1727080 (1.6 Mb)
          Interrupt:16 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:65 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:65 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:6836 (6.6 Kb)  TX bytes:6836 (6.6 Kb)

Notice i have no Bcast

Here is my rc.conf

LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="America/Halifax"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT="ter-120b"
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
VERBOSE="3"

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MODULES=(!net-pf-10 !pcspkr vboxdrv) 

UDEV_TIMEOUT=30


USEDMRAID="no"

USEBTRFS="no"

USELVM="no"

HOSTNAME="desktop"

interface=eth0
address=192.168.1.50
netmask=255.255.255.0
gateway=192.168.1.254

NETWORK_PERSIST="no"

DAEMONS=(!hwclock syslog-ng network netfs crond rpcbind nfs-common nfs-server hal dbus @ntpd @sshd @alsa @gpm @acpid @httpd @pms)

For brevity I've taken out all commented out lines

Since this has happened my network performance for this machine only has been crap with it taking a real long time to find other machines. (BTW I only connect to other machines and my router via the ip addresses, I do not use hostnames for anything on my network so I don't think this is a dns error). I don't know if this is the issue but its only been happening since I changed it to this configuration and the bcast is gone.

I tried adding the broadcast=192.168.1.255 to my rc.conf on the chance it might work but it didn't.

Now I know the new way is to use netcfg tools and I have done this on my laptop and really do understand why this is a great way to go, but on this desktop, with no wireless and only one static ip wired connection the netcfg tools want to install wpa_supplicant, dhcpcd and wireless tools. This is unaccaptable to me as it is not KISS compliant to add tools I will never use into my system.

So my questions are these, in order of importance.

1. Do you think the Bcast is my issue with the time it takes to connect to other machines and routers via the ip address?

If yes is there a way to set a broadcast in my rc.conf or can I set it somewhere else?

If no what do you need from me to help you help me solve this?

2. Can I install netcfg, and will it work, without dhcpcd, wpa_supplicant, and wireless tools?

3. Am I just a nutter and did I miss this issue being addressed somewhere else on the forum?

If yes can you point me to it as my search didn't find it?

Thx in advance

George

falconindy · 2011-06-19 14:28:39

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121186

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#1 2011-06-19 14:16:59

rc.conf - no broadcast under eth0

#2 2011-06-19 14:28:39

Re: rc.conf - no broadcast under eth0

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