[arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

[James Rayner]

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:36 +0100, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:37:54AM +1100, James Rayner wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:34 +0100, fons at kokkinizita.net 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