[GLLUG] gentoo Question 1: dhcpcd

[Brian Hoort]

At 11:55 AM 3/8/2005, you wrote:
>On Tuesday 08 March 2005 10:39, after a long battle with technology,
>Brian Hoort wrote:
> > Every boot of my system, I have to log in as root and "# dhcpcd eth0"
> > manually.  I figured I needed to "# rc-update dhcp" or something, but
> > there is no /etc/init.d/dhcp*.
>
>There is an /etc/init.d/net.eth0 , isn't there?  "rc-update add net.eth0
>default".

Ah yes.  That took.  Thank You.

After I get my wireless card working (this is proving more difficult) I'll 
do the same for net.lo, no?  What is the "lo"?


> > What do I need to do to make this automatic?  My /etc/conf.d/net is
> > configured for dhcp.  There is a /etc/dhcpc directory, but it is
> > empty.  I do not know what that is for.
>
>/etc/conf.d/net should have the following lines in it:
>
>iface_eth0="dhcp"

I have that.

># writes DHCPCD messages to syslog, so if something goes wrong, you'll
># get some warning
>dhcpcd_eth0="-d"

Don't have that.  What is that?  That's not a commented out default, either.


>/etc/dhcpc/ contains something or other.  Looks like a couple of text
>files describing the network settings that were obtained by dhcpcd.
>Strangely, the last time these files were modified on my laptop was in
>late 2003, though I've been using dhcpcd with my laptop for a very long
>time.

Well, then I would guess it's depreciated or something, 'cause there's 
nothing at all in mine, and I'm on DHCP right now.  This system was 
installed with 2004.2 I think.

Thanks!