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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Angstrom & OpenZaurus => Topic started by: Moreno on May 22, 2005, 11:05:13 am
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Does anyone know how tu make routing table entries permanent in OZ 3.5.3 (collie)?
Thanks in advance.
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Does anyone know how tu make routing table entries permanent in OZ 3.5.3 (collie)?
Thanks in advance.
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I'd think like on real Linux box. Never needed that though so I can't comment on this one. However, I'm curious why you would need that at all. The routing schould be automatically configured when you insert a WLAN card or plug the Z into the craddle.
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I'd think like on real Linux box.
Every distro has its own method to do this. Of course, you can write an ad-hoc script to make the table permanent, but I'm interested in an "official" way to do it in OpenZaurus.
Never needed that though so I can't comment on this one. However, I'm curious why you would need that at all. The routing schould be automatically configured when you insert a WLAN card or plug the Z into the craddle.
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It can automatically detect which networks I have and configure the gateways I want to use??? Wow! Definitively OpenZaurus is ahead of its time..
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It can automatically detect which networks I have and configure the gateways I want to use??? Wow! Definitively OpenZaurus is ahead of its time..
Isn't this part of what the dhcp server does?
I certainly have my gateway and routing table setup for me automatically when I connect to my wifi network at uni.
Si
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I'd think like on real Linux box.
Every distro has its own method to do this. Of course, you can write an ad-hoc script to make the table permanent, but I'm interested in an "official" way to do it in OpenZaurus.
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OZ is debian based, so the "official" debian way should work on OZ.
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It can automatically detect which networks I have and configure the gateways I want to use??? Wow! Definitively OpenZaurus is ahead of its time..
Isn't this part of what the dhcp server does?
I certainly have my gateway and routing table setup for me automatically when I connect to my wifi network at uni.
Si
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I'm not using DHCP.
I have two subnetworks, and the devices in these subnetworks have fixed IPs.
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I'm not using DHCP.
I have two subnetworks, and the devices in these subnetworks have fixed IPs.
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Then maybe create two different PCMCIA "schemes". Google can tell you more about it.
Each scheme may contain an IP (static or dhcp); netmask, gateway etc.
You could even hack the scripts to do whatever you want during "ifup".
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It can automatically detect which networks I have and configure the gateways I want to use??? Wow! Definitively OpenZaurus is ahead of its time..
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Yep, that's exactly how it works for me....since I'm using DHCP at home.
Anyways, if you would have spent some time actually looking for an answer to your problem (multiple networks w/ multiple configurations), you'd soon have found out
that the setup is trivial and switching between configurations a breeze.
This is a common problem for notebook users and has been solved a long time ago.
And there's extensive documentation available from google.
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It can automatically detect which networks I have and configure the gateways I want to use??? Wow! Definitively OpenZaurus is ahead of its time..
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Yep, that's exactly how it works for me....since I'm using DHCP at home.
Anyways, if you would have spent some time actually looking for an answer to your problem (multiple networks w/ multiple configurations), you'd soon have found out
that the setup is trivial and switching between configurations a breeze.
This is a common problem for notebook users and has been solved a long time ago.
And there's extensive documentation available from google.
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In fact, this setup is working perfectly on my network since day one. I've just asked for the best way to make the routing tables permanent in OZ.
I described my network topology just to make clear that dhcp solutions are not applicable.
Probably, the best solution is what Koen pointed out: look at the Debian way to do this.
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Just in case anyone is interested.
The configuration file /etc/network/interfaces seems to be the right place to make routing table permanent.
The relevant lines in my configuration file look like this:
iface usbd0 inet static
netmask 255.255.255.0
address 192.168.129.201
up route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.129.1 dev usbd0
up route add default gw 192.168.129.1
down route del -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.129.1 dev usbd0
down route del default