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diff --git a/manpages/rc.inet1.8 b/manpages/rc.inet1.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b4d914 --- /dev/null +++ b/manpages/rc.inet1.8 @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +.\" -*- nroff -*- +.ds g \" empty +.ds G \" empty +.\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half +.\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent. +.de Tp +.ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP +.el .TP "\\$1" +.. +.TH RC.INET1 8 "03 Dec 2008" "Slackware Version 12.2.0" +.SH NAME +rc.inet1 \- Slackware network configuration script. +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR rc.inet1 . +This script configures network interfaces. +Wireless interfaces are configured just like any network device +but accept many more configuration parameters. +.br +rc.inet1 reads its configuration parameters from a file `rc.inet1.conf'. +The `rc.inet1.conf' file contains a series of variable array definitions, +with each array index corresponding to a single network interface. +.SH OPTIONS +The way to start your network (the configuration of your nics and +bringing the interfaces up, and creating a default route if required) +is by running the command: +.LP +.B /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 +.LP +Restarting the whole network (all available network interfaces) +is done in a similar fashion: +.LP +.B /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart +.LP +More generically speaking, you can start/stop/restart any network +interface yourself by running one of the commands: +.LP +.B /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 INTERFACE_start +.LP +.B /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 INTERFACE_stop +.LP +.B /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 INTERFACE_restart +.LP +where +.I `INTERFACE' +is the name of an existing network interface (eth0, wlan0, ...) +.SH WIRELESS +The script +.I rc.wireless +takes care of configuring the wireless parameters for a network +interface. This script does not run independently. Instead, it is executed +by the generic network configuration script +.IR rc.inet1 . +.br +If a wireless interface is detected, +.I rc.wireless +will use +.I iwconfig , +.I iwpriv +and possibly +.I wpa_supplicant +to associate the card with an access point (in managed mode) or peer it with +another computer (in ad-hoc mode), and enable an encryption modus like WPA. +.SH FILES +.TP 25 +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 +network configuration script +.TP +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf +parameter definition file (is being read by rc.inet1 and rc.wireless) +.TP +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless +wireless configuration script +.TP +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf +parameter definition file ( +.B deprecated +) +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +If you remove the executable bit from the +.I rc.wireless +script, it will never be executed. This can be beneficial if you have +written your own wireless script and don't want Slackware to mess it up. +.SH CAVEATS +The network interface definitions are stored in variable +.I arrays. +The bash shell has no facilities to retrieve the largest array index used. +Therefore, the +.I rc.inet1 +script makes the assumption that array indexes stay below the value of +.BR 6 . +Effectively this means that you can configure up to 6 network interfaces in +rc.inet1.conf by default. +.LP +If you want to configure more than six network interfaces, you will +have to edit the file +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 +and change the value `6' in the line: +.br +.B \ \ MAXNICS=${MAXNICS:-6} +.br +to a value that is larger than the largest index value you use. +.LP +The /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless script is not meant to be run on it's own by the user! +.SH AUTHOR +Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR rc.inet1.conf(5), +.BR ifconfig(8), +.BR iwconfig(8), +.BR route(8) diff --git a/manpages/rc.inet1.conf.5 b/manpages/rc.inet1.conf.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b23f678 --- /dev/null +++ b/manpages/rc.inet1.conf.5 @@ -0,0 +1,202 @@ +.\" -*- nroff -*- +.ds g \" empty +.ds G \" empty +.\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half +.\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent. +.de Tp +.ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP +.el .TP "\\$1" +.. +.TH RC.INET1.CONF 5 "03 Dec 2008" "Slackware Version 12.2.0" +.SH NAME +rc.inet1.conf \- Slackware network configuration file. +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B rc.inet1.conf +\. This file contains the configuration settings for network interfaces. +It consists basically of a series of variable array definitions. +Array elements with the same index number will all belong to the same +network interface. +.LP +By default, index number `0' is used for the configuration of interface +.I eth0, +index number `1' is used for +.I eth1 +and so forth. The default interface name can be overruled by the use of +the variable +.B IFNAME. +.LP +This is what a typical section of the file looks like for a card that is +configured to use DHCP, showing all array variables with the index number [0]: +.LP +# Config information for eth0: +.br +IPADDR[0]="" +.br +NETMASK[0]="" +.br +USE_DHCP[0]="yes" +.br +DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]="" +.br +DHCP_TIMEOUT[0]="" +.LP +Alternatively, here is an example for a card that uses a static IP address and +has a non-default name ( +.I ath0 +instead of +.I eth1 +). The array index is [1] in this case. +.LP +# Config information for ath0 (using static IP address): +.br +IFNAME[1]="ath0" +.br +IPADDR[1]="192.168.3.11" +.br +NETMASK[1]="255.255.255.0" +.br +USE_DHCP[1]="" +.br +DHCP_HOSTNAME[1]="" +.br +GATEWAY="192.168.3.1" +.SH GENERAL PARAMETERS +This is a list of network parameters you can set for any card (wired as well +as wired). The example section is for `eth0' by default, i.e. +the array variables all have the array index [0]: +.LP +# Config information for eth0: +.TP 25 +IPADDR[0]="" +# Set this value to an actual IP address if you want static IP +address assignment +.TP +NETMASK[0]="" +# With a static IP address, you are required to also set a netmask +(255.255.255.0 is common) +.TP +USE_DHCP[0]="yes" +# If set to "yes", we will run a DHCP client and have the IP address +dynamically assigned +.TP +DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]="mybox" +# Tell the DHCP server what hostname to register +.TP +DHCP_TIMEOUT[0]=15 +# The default timeout for the DHCP client to wait for server response is +30 seconds, but you might want a shorter wait. +.TP +IFNAME[0]="eth0:1" +# Set up an IP alias. +.TP +HWADDR[0]="00:01:23:45:67:89" +# Overrule the card's hardware MAC address +.TP +MTU[0]="" +# The default MTU is 1500, but you might need 1360 when you use NAT'ed +IPSec traffic. +.TP +DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[0]="yes" +# If you do +.B not +want `/etc/resolv.conf' overwritten by the DHCP client +.TP +DHCP_KEEPNTP[0]="yes" +# If you do +.B not +want `/etc/ntp.conf' overwritten by the DHCP client +.TP +DHCP_KEEPGW[0]="yes" +# If you do +.B not +want the DHCP client to change your default gateway +.TP +DHCP_DEBUG[0]="yes" +# Make dhcpcd show verbose diagnostics +.TP +DHCP_NOIPV4LL[0]="yes" +# Do not assign an +.I `ipv4ll' +address when a DHCP server is not found (ipv4 link-local addressing in the IP range 169.254.0.0/16 is also known as +.I `zeroconf' +address assignment) +.TP +DHCP_IPADDR[0]="" +# Request a specific IP address from the DHCP server +.SH WIRELESS PARAMETERS +For wireless cards, several additional parameter definitions are available. +All these parameters (or better, variables) start with the prefix +.B WLAN_ . +.LP +.TP 25 +WLAN_ESSID[4]=DARKSTAR +# Your Wireless Access Point's name +.TP +WLAN_MODE[4]=Managed +# "Managed" mode for use with Access Points. "Ad-Hoc" is for +peer-to-peer connections. +.TP +WLAN_RATE[4]="54M auto" +# The transmission rates you want the driver to try ("auto" means +that bandwidth can be variable) +.TP +WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="auto" +# The channel to which the Access Point is tuned ("auto" to let the +driver find out the correct channel) +.TP +WLAN_KEY[4]="D5A31F54ACF0487C2D0B1C10D2" +# Definition of a WEP key +.TP +WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="set AuthMode=WPAPSK | set EncrypType=TKIP | set WPAPSK=the_64_character_key" +# Some drivers require a private ioctl to be set through the iwpriv command. +If more than one is required, you can place them in the +.I IWPRIV +parameter (separated with the pipe (|) character, see the example). +.TP +WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant" +# Run wpa_supplicant for WPA support +.TP +WLAN_WPADRIVER[4]="ndiswrapper" +# Tell wpa_supplicant to specifically use the ndiswrapper driver. +If you leave this empty the `wext' driver is used by default; most +modern wireless drivers use 'wext'. +.TP +WLAN_WPAWAIT[4]=30 +# In case it takes long for the WPA association to finish, you can +increase the wait time before rc.wireless decides that association +failed (defaults to 10 seconds) +.SH FILES +.TP 25 +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 +network configuration script +.TP +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf +configuration parameter file (is being read by rc.inet1 andrc.wireless) +.TP +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless +wireless configuration script +.TP +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf +configuration parameter file ( +.B deprecated +) +.SH CAVEATS +The network interface definitions are stored in variable +.I arrays. +The bash shell has no facilities to retrieve the largest array index used. +Therefore, the +.I rc.inet1 +script makes the assumption that array indexes stay below the value of +.B 6 +\. +.LP +If you want to configure more than six network interfaces, you will +have to edit the file +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 +and change the value `6' in the line +.B MAXNICS=${MAXNICS:-6} +to the number of network interfaces you wish to use. +.SH AUTHOR +Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR rc.inet1(8) |