On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 04:40:06PM -0500, John McMonagle
wrote:> Working at setting up some new firewalls with multi-path routing over 2
> isps. Doing it with debian sarge.
>
> Problem is the normal network scripts use ifconfig and route.
>
> In my tests I did a simple setup script.
>
> Feel like I am reinventing the wheel :-)
>
> Is it OK to use the network scripts to setup the interface and then
> remove the routes ifconfig created and add any needed routes with ip
> commands?
>
> Or am I best setting up the connections from scratch?
After struggling with exactly this same issue myself, I simply created
everything from scratch. Otherwise, I couldn''t ever get it to work.
> Also related is some of interfaces are dynamic.
> I ran rewrite dhclient-script or just rebuild routes in
> dhclient-exit-hooks.d.
>
> Also dhcpd-script gives
> new_subnet_mask=.........
> new_ip_address=....
> new_network_number=......
> interface=eth2
>
> But for ip route need the length part of new_network_number/length
>
> Is there a simple way to calculate length from new_subnet_mask ?
dunno about that one.
Glen
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