Network

I had trouble setting up my network configuration file:

/etc/conf.d/net

There is a Gentoo utility, net-setup, which asks a few questions before writing the file for you.

To install this utility:

emerge -av livecd-tools

Note: This utility writes the network configuration in a deprecated syntax. I have finally managed to get a good up to date network configuration for weezy.

See revision 446 of https://weezy/svn/backup/linux-config/weezy/etc/conf.d/net.

The static IP address, netmask and broadcast address are set in this line:

config_eth0=( "192.168.1.78 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255" )

The gateway configuration is set in the following line:

routes_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.1.1" )