Changeset 6fcb4bb

Timestamp:

01/05/2005 03:05:10 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Jeremy Utley <jeremy@…>

Children:

b62a703

Parents:

8a2465b8

Message:

Minor textual correction in the network configuration - closes bug 1013

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/testing/BOOK@4492 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter07/network.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -64 +64 @@
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>January 5, 2005 [jeremy]: Minor textual correction in network
+configuration, since iproute will not recognize the old eth0:1 format for
+ip aliasing. Closes bug 1013.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>January 5, 2005 [jeremy]: Added the --disable-selinux parameter
 to Ch 5 glibc.  Allows building from hosts which use SELinux functionality,

chapter07/network.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
 <title>Creating Network Interface Configuration Files</title>
 
+<!-- Edit Me -->
 <para>Which interfaces are brought up and down by the network script
-depends on the files in the <filename
-class="directory">/etc/sysconfig/network-devices</filename> directory.
-This directory should contain files in the form of
-<filename>ifconfig.xyz</filename>, where <quote>xyz</quote> is a
-network interface name (such as eth0 or eth0:1).</para>
+depends on the files and directories in the <filename
+class="directory">/etc/sysconfig/network-devices</filename> hierarchy.
+This directory should contain a directory for each interface to be configured,
+such as <filename>ifconfig.xyz</filename>, where <quote>xyz</quote> is a
+network interface name. Inside this directory would be files defining
+the attributes to this interface, such as its IP address(es), subnet
+masks, and so forth.</para>
+<!-- -->
 
 <para>If the <filename