On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:36 +0100, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:37:54AM +1100, James Rayner wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:34 +0100, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > > > > > You should try the testing version of netcfg instead: > > > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/testing/os/any/netcfg-2.5.0rc2-1-any.pkg.tar.gz > > > > > > Will this allow to specify additional routes (apart > > > from GATEWAY) as well ? It's one thing I need e.g. > > > at home where the gateway to the world is the ISP > > > modem (192.168.1.1), but one of the machines on that > > > net is also a router to second local network. > > > > Yes. That's already available in the current [core] release too. > > > > Have a look at /etc/network.d/examples/ethernet-iproute. You can pass an > > array of iproute options. The example there only sets a static ip and > > default route, but you can pass as many routes as you like. > > Yes, but I'm using netcfg for the wireless connection of the > laptop, and AFAICS the "IPCFG" command used in ethernet-iproute > does not work when using the 'wireless' profile. I may be wrong > but have not been able to add any routing to a wireless config. > > The examples seem to assume that wireless implies 1. dhcp, and > 2. just a default gw and not other routes. > > For (1) it is just the examples lacking. But (2) seems to be a > hard-wired limitation. > Oops, you're completely right for the version in [core] - it's been a while since I have used that version. In [testing] you can now use any of the ethernet-iproute options in wireless. Effectively 'ethernet-iproute' doesn't exist, they have been merged into a single 'ethernet' which handles both ifconfig/iproute, with preference for iproute. ifconfig based options are provided purely for backward compatibility. James
