Network in rc.conf

[pepedog]

After updates and reboot, no network
rc.conf.pacnew has the network like this which agrees with https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rc.conf
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# Use 'ip addr' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
#
# Wired network setup
# - interface: name of device (required)
# - address: IP address (leave blank for DHCP)
# - netmask: subnet mask (ignored for DHCP)
# - gateway: default route (ignored for DHCP)
#
# Static IP example
# interface=eth0
# address=192.168.0.2
# netmask=255.255.255.0
# gateway=192.168.0.1
#
# DHCP example
# interface=eth0
# address=
# netmask=
# gateway=

interface=eth0
address=
netmask=
gateway=

')

My rc.conf is like https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network#Configure_IP
Network is failing with both, don't have time to look at as our business server has fallen over, but surely this is affecting others by now?

[kmihelich]

Apparently both should work, my devices are still configured in the old style and working. /etc/rc.d/network allows either way.

[pepedog]

I think a dockstar might have died, even a no disk boot to pogo os is not getting an address.

[kmihelich]

Something bad happened then.. /me grabs the bagpipes

[pepedog]

It does seem to boot, will post some logs tomorrow. Might be uboot corruption, or mac address gone? Not done anything that might cause this.

[pepedog]

Aside from dead dockstar, I looked at logs
It complained /sbin/agetty was missing
On a new install /sbin/ifconfig doesn't exist, but it boots fine
So what package(s) had these
Ahh, net-tools not installed by default, contains ifconfig

[pepedog]

After quite a learning curve, the way to program a SINGLE INTERFACE is this in rc.conf
interface=eth0
address=
netmask=
gateway=

If you put in a second interface, only the second entry works
So you install netcfg and copy relevant files from /etc/network.d/examples to /etc/network.d
I ended up with 3 files called eth0 eth1 and wlan0
These get refered to in rc.conf this way
NETWORKS=(eth1 eth0 wlan0)
You get rid of network out of DAEMONS and have this
DAEMONS=(..... net-profiles .....)

Still have a problem, as wlan0 is wirless, it's starting wpa_supplicant which is stopping hostapd from starting

[kmihelich]

Yeah, I missed getting net-tools into the new rootfs. I just need to upload the new one.

Heard about the multiple interface thing, not sure why Arch went away from essentially configuring the line that gets passed to ifconfig to this, unless they're aiming for more user friendliness. No idea about the network problem, I've never seen that happen.

[pepedog]

I got over my problem by putting this in rc.local
/usr/bin/killall wpa_supplicant
/etc/rc.d/hostapd start
Even though hostapd is started in rc.conf

[kmihelich]

So is your ethernet coming up now too?