Network questions

[Asif Iqbal]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Norberto Bensa <nbensa at gmail.com> wrote:
> don't specify gw where it is not needed. The route is enough

I commented out the gateway for the second interface. How do I add the
route command
so it survives the reboot, short of writing a init script?

Also how do I set the speed and duplex to desired spec short of
writing another init script?

I am hoping all these can be added in the interfaces file.

>
> On 3/9/09, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> # cat  /etc/network/interfaces
>>
>> auto eth0
>> iface eth0 inet static
>>        address 192.168.0.242
>>        netmask 255.255.255.252
>>        network 192.168.0.240
>>        broadcast 192.168.0.243
>>        gateway 192.168.0.241
>>        # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if
>> installed
>>        dns-nameservers 192.168.0.65
>>        dns-search example.com
>> aut0 eth1
>> iface eth1 inet static
>>        address 192.168.1.230
>>        netmask 255.255.255.252
>>        network 192.168.1.228
>>        broadcast 192.168.1.231
>>        gateway 192.168.1.229
>>        # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if
>> installed
>>        dns-nameservers 192.168.1.65
>>        dns-search example.com
>>
>>
>> How do I modify the above setup so that I only have one default gw
>> 192.168.0.241 and a second gw 192.168.1.229 only for the network
>> 192.168.1.228 ?
>>
>> With the existing interfaces file, only one interface eth0 comes up. I
>> need to run ifup eth1 manually as root for the eth1 to come up.
>> However then the system has two default gw and hence do not respond to
>> network anymore
>>
>> Also I have no access to the switches that these interfaces are connected
>> to. So only way I can make the interfaces 100/full is by running the
>> following
>> command manually for each interface
>>
>>              ethtool -s <interface> speed 100 duplex full autoneg off
>>
>> Is there a way I can modify the interfaces file to stick these options, as
>> well,
>> short of writing a init script?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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