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- <sect1 id="ch-scripts-network">
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- <title>General Network Configuration</title>
- <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-network">
- <primary sortas="d-network">network</primary>
- <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
- <para>This section only applies if a network card is to be
- configured.</para>
- <para>If a network card will not be used, there is likely no need to
- create any configuration files relating to network cards. If that is
- the case, remove the <filename class="symlink">network</filename>
- symlinks from all run-level directories (<filename
- class="directory">/etc/rc.d/rc*.d</filename>).</para>
- <sect2 id='stable-net-names'>
- <title>Creating stable names for network interfaces</title>
- <para>If there is only one network interface in the system to be
- configured, this section is optional, although it will never be wrong to do
- it. In many cases (e.g. a laptop with a wireless and a wired interface),
- accomplishing the configuration in this section is necessary.</para>
- <para>With Udev and modular network drivers, the network interface numbering
- is not persistent across reboots by default, because the drivers are loaded
- in parallel and, thus, in random order. For example, on a computer having
- two network cards made by Intel and Realtek, the network card manufactured
- by Intel may become <filename class="devicefile">eth0</filename> and the
- Realtek card becomes <filename class="devicefile">eth1</filename>. In some
- cases, after a reboot the cards get renumbered the other way around. To
- avoid this, Udev comes with a script and some rules to assign stable names
- to network cards based on their MAC address.</para>
- <para>The rules were pre-generated in the build instructions for
- <application>udev (systemd)</application> in the last chapter. Inspect the
- <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules</filename> file, to
- find out which name was assigned to which network device:</para>
- <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules</userinput></screen>
- <note><para>In some cases such as when MAC addresess have been assigned to
- a network card manually or in a virtual envirnment such as Xen,
- the network rules file may not have been generated because addresses
- are not consistently assigned. In these cases, just continue to
- the next section.</para></note>
- <para>The file begins with a comment block followed by two lines for each
- NIC. The first line for each NIC is a commented description showing its
- hardware IDs (e.g. its PCI vendor and device IDs, if it's a PCI card),
- along with its driver in parentheses, if the driver can be found. Neither
- the hardware ID nor the driver is used to determine which name to give an
- interface; this information is only for reference. The second line is the
- Udev rule that matches this NIC and actually assigns it a name.</para>
- <para>All Udev rules are made up of several keys, separated by commas and
- optional whitespace. This rule's keys and an explanation of each of them
- are as follows:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><literal>SUBSYSTEM=="net"</literal> - This tells Udev to ignore
- devices that are not network cards.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><literal>ACTION=="add"</literal> - This tells Udev to ignore this
- rule for a uevent that isn't an add ("remove" and "change" uevents also
- happen, but don't need to rename network interfaces).</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><literal>DRIVERS=="?*"</literal> - This exists so that Udev will
- ignore VLAN or bridge sub-interfaces (because these sub-interfaces do
- not have drivers). These sub-interfaces are skipped because the name
- that would be assigned would collide with their parent devices.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><literal>ATTR{address}</literal> - The value of this key is the
- NIC's MAC address.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><literal>ATTR{type}=="1"</literal> - This ensures the rule only
- matches the primary interface in the case of certain wireless drivers,
- which create multiple virtual interfaces. The secondary interfaces are
- skipped for the same reason that VLAN and bridge sub-interfaces are
- skipped: there would be a name collision otherwise.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><literal>KERNEL=="eth*"</literal> - This key was added to the
- Udev rule generator to handle machines that have multiple network
- interfaces, all with the same MAC address (the PS3 is one such
- machine). If the independent interfaces have different basenames,
- this key will allow Udev to tell them apart. This is generally not
- necessary for most Linux From Scratch users, but does not hurt.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><literal>NAME</literal> - The value of this key is the name that
- Udev will assign to this interface.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>The value of <literal>NAME</literal> is the important part. Make sure
- you know which name has been assigned to each of your network cards before
- proceeding, and be sure to use that <literal>NAME</literal> value when
- creating your configuration files below.</para>
- </sect2>
- <sect2>
- <title>Creating Network Interface Configuration Files</title>
- <para>Which interfaces are brought up and down by the network script
- depends on the files in <filename
- class="directory">/etc/sysconfig/</filename>. This directory should
- contain a file for each interface to be configured, such as
- <filename>ifconfig.xyz</filename>, where <quote>xyz</quote> is
- meaningful to the administrator such as the device name (e.g. eth0).
- Inside this file are attributes to this interface, such as its IP
- address(es), subnet masks, and so forth. It is necessary that
- the stem of the filename be <emphasis>ifconfig</emphasis>.</para>
- <para>The following command creates a sample file for the
- <emphasis>eth0</emphasis> device with a static IP address:</para>
- <screen><userinput>cd /etc/sysconfig/
- cat > ifconfig.eth0 << "EOF"
- <literal>ONBOOT=yes
- IFACE=eth0
- SERVICE=ipv4-static
- IP=192.168.1.1
- GATEWAY=192.168.1.2
- PREFIX=24
- BROADCAST=192.168.1.255</literal>
- EOF</userinput></screen>
- <para>The values of these variables must be changed in every file to match
- the proper setup.</para>
- <para>If the <envar>ONBOOT</envar> variable is set to <quote>yes</quote> the
- network script will bring up the Network Interface Card (NIC) during
- booting of the system. If set to anything but <quote>yes</quote> the NIC
- will be ignored by the network script and not be automatically brought up.
- The interface can be manually started or stopped with the
- <command>ifup</command> and <command>ifdown</command> commands.</para>
- <para>The <envar>IFACE</envar> variable defines the interface name,
- for example, eth0. It is required for all network device configuration
- files. </para>
- <para>The <envar>SERVICE</envar> variable defines the method used for
- obtaining the IP address. The LFS-Bootscripts package has a modular IP
- assignment format, and creating additional files in the <filename
- class="directory">/lib/services/</filename> directory allows other IP
- assignment methods. This is commonly used for Dynamic Host Configuration
- Protocol (DHCP), which is addressed in the BLFS book.</para>
- <para>The <envar>GATEWAY</envar> variable should contain the default
- gateway IP address, if one is present. If not, then comment out the
- variable entirely.</para>
- <para>The <envar>PREFIX</envar> variable contains the number of
- bits used in the subnet. Each octet in an IP address is 8 bits. If the
- subnet's netmask is 255.255.255.0, then it is using the first three octets
- (24 bits) to specify the network number. If the netmask is 255.255.255.240,
- it would be using the first 28 bits. Prefixes longer than 24 bits are
- commonly used by DSL and cable-based Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
- In this example (PREFIX=24), the netmask is 255.255.255.0. Adjust the
- <envar>PREFIX</envar> variable according to your specific subnet.i
- If omitted, the PREFIX defaults to 24.</para>
- <para>For more information see the <command>ifup</command> man page.</para>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="resolv.conf">
- <title>Creating the /etc/resolv.conf File</title>
- <indexterm zone="resolv.conf">
- <primary sortas="e-/etc/resolv.conf">/etc/resolv.conf</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <para>If the system is going to be connected to the Internet, it will
- need some means of Domain Name Service (DNS) name resolution to
- resolve Internet domain names to IP addresses, and vice versa. This is
- best achieved by placing the IP address of the DNS server, available
- from the ISP or network administrator, into
- <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>. Create the file by running the
- following:</para>
- <screen><userinput>cat > /etc/resolv.conf << "EOF"
- <literal># Begin /etc/resolv.conf
- domain <replaceable><Your Domain Name></replaceable>
- nameserver <replaceable><IP address of your primary nameserver></replaceable>
- nameserver <replaceable><IP address of your secondary nameserver></replaceable>
- # End /etc/resolv.conf</literal>
- EOF</userinput></screen>
- <para>The <varname>domain</varname> statement can be omitted
- or replaced with a <varname>search</varname> statement. See the man page for
- resolv.conf for more details.</para>
- <para>Replace <replaceable><IP address of the nameserver></replaceable>
- with the IP address of the DNS most appropriate for the setup. There will
- often be more than one entry (requirements demand secondary servers for
- fallback capability). If you only need or want one DNS server, remove the
- second <emphasis>nameserver</emphasis> line from the file. The IP address
- may also be a router on the local network.</para>
- <note><para>The Google Public IPv4 DNS addresses are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.</para></note>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
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