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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
  2. <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
  3. "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
  4. <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  5. %general-entities;
  6. ]>
  7. <sect1 id="ch-scripts-network">
  8. <?dbhtml filename="network.html"?>
  9. <title>Configuring the network Script</title>
  10. <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-network">
  11. <primary sortas="d-network">network</primary>
  12. <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
  13. <para>This section only applies if a network card is to be
  14. configured.</para>
  15. <para>If a network card will not be used, there is likely no need to
  16. create any configuration files relating to network cards. If that is
  17. the case, remove the <filename class="symlink">network</filename>
  18. symlinks from all run-level directories (<filename
  19. class="directory">/etc/rc.d/rc*.d</filename>).</para>
  20. <sect2>
  21. <title>Creating stable names for network interfaces</title>
  22. <para>Instructions in this section are optional if you have only one
  23. network card.</para>
  24. <para>With Udev and modular network drivers, the network interface numbering
  25. is not persistent across reboots by default, because the drivers are loaded
  26. in parallel and, thus, in random order. For example, on a computer having
  27. two network cards made by Intel and Realtek, the network card manufactured
  28. by Intel may become <filename class="devicefile">eth0</filename> and the
  29. Realtek card becomes <filename class="devicefile">eth1</filename>. In some
  30. cases, after a reboot the cards get renumbered the other way around. To
  31. avoid this, create Udev rules that assign stable names to network cards
  32. based on their MAC addresses or bus positions.</para>
  33. <para>If you are going to use MAC addresses to identify your network
  34. cards, find the addresses with the following command:</para>
  35. <screen role="nodump"><userinput>grep -H . /sys/class/net/*/address</userinput></screen>
  36. <para>For each network card (but not for the loopback interface),
  37. invent a descriptive name, such as <quote>realtek</quote>, and create
  38. Udev rules similar to the following:</para>
  39. <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules &lt;&lt; EOF
  40. <literal>ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", SYSFS{address}=="<replaceable>00:e0:4c:12:34:56</replaceable>", \
  41. NAME="<replaceable>realtek</replaceable>"
  42. ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", SYSFS{address}=="<replaceable>00:a0:c9:78:9a:bc</replaceable>", \
  43. NAME="<replaceable>intel</replaceable>"</literal>
  44. EOF</userinput></screen>
  45. <!-- Yes, I know that VLANs are beyond BLFS. This is not the reason to get them
  46. incorrect by default when every distro does this right. -->
  47. <note>
  48. <para>Be aware that Udev does not recognize the backslash for line
  49. continuation. The examples in this book work properly because both
  50. the backslash and newline are ignored by the shell. This makes the
  51. shell send each rule to cat on only one line. (The shell ignores
  52. this sequence because the EOF string used in the here-document
  53. redirection is not enclosed in either double or single quotes. For
  54. more details, see the bash(1) manpage, and search it for "Here
  55. Documents".)</para>
  56. <para>If modifying Udev rules with an editor, be sure to leave each
  57. rule on one physical line.</para>
  58. </note>
  59. <para>If you are going to use the bus position as the key, find the
  60. position of each card with the following commands:</para>
  61. <screen role="nodump"><userinput>for dir in /sys/class/net/* ; do
  62. [ -e $dir/device ] &amp;&amp; {
  63. basename $dir ; readlink -f $dir/device
  64. }
  65. done</userinput></screen>
  66. <para>This will yield output similar to:</para>
  67. <screen role="nodump"><userinput><replaceable>eth0</replaceable>
  68. /sys/devices/pci0000:00/<replaceable>0000:00:0c.0</replaceable>
  69. <replaceable>eth1</replaceable>
  70. /sys/devices/pci0000:00/<replaceable>0000:00:0d.0</replaceable></userinput></screen>
  71. <para>In this example, <replaceable>eth0</replaceable> has PCI bus position
  72. <replaceable>0000:00:0c.0</replaceable> (domain 0000, bus 00, device 0c,
  73. function 0), and <replaceable>eth1</replaceable> has PCI bus position
  74. <replaceable>0000:00:0d.0</replaceable> (domain 0000, bus 00, device 0d,
  75. function 0).</para>
  76. <para>Now create Udev rules similar to the following:</para>
  77. <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules &lt;&lt; EOF
  78. <literal>ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", BUS=="<replaceable>pci</replaceable>", KERNELS=="<replaceable>0000:00:0c.0</replaceable>", \
  79. NAME="<replaceable>realtek</replaceable>"
  80. ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", BUS=="<replaceable>pci</replaceable>", KERNELS=="<replaceable>0000:00:0d.0</replaceable>", \
  81. NAME="<replaceable>intel</replaceable>"</literal>
  82. EOF</userinput></screen>
  83. <para>Udev has installed a rule_generator rules file that uses MAC
  84. addresses, not bus positions. Rules generated by this file will conflict
  85. with the rules you just created, so delete the file:</para>
  86. <screen role="nodump"><userinput>rm /etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules</userinput></screen>
  87. <note>
  88. <para>You will also have to remember to create a new bus-position-based
  89. rule each time you plug in an additional network card. In a MAC address
  90. based persistence scheme, the rule_generator rules file would do this
  91. automatically.</para>
  92. </note>
  93. <para>Regardless of which method you use, these rules will always rename
  94. the network cards to <quote>realtek</quote> and <quote>intel</quote>,
  95. independently of the original numbering provided by the kernel (i.e.: the
  96. original <quote>eth0</quote> and <quote>eth1</quote> interfaces will no
  97. longer exist, unless you put such <quote>descriptive</quote> names in the
  98. NAME key). Use the descriptive names from the Udev rules instead of
  99. <quote>eth0</quote> in the network interface configuration files
  100. below.</para>
  101. <para>Note that the rules above don't work for every setup. For example,
  102. MAC-based rules break when bridges or VLANs are used, because bridges and
  103. VLANs have the same MAC address as the network card. One wants to rename
  104. only the network card interface, not the bridge or VLAN interface, but the
  105. example rule matches both. If you use such virtual interfaces, you have two
  106. potential solutions. One is to add the DRIVER=="?*" key after
  107. SUBSYSTEM=="net" in MAC-based rules which will stop matching the virtual
  108. interfaces. This is known to fail with some older Ethernet cards because
  109. they don't have the DRIVER variable in the uevent and thus the rule does
  110. not match with such cards. Another solution is to switch to rules that use
  111. the bus position as a key.</para>
  112. <para>The second known non-working case is with wireless cards using the
  113. MadWifi or HostAP drivers, because they create at least two interfaces with
  114. the same MAC address and bus position. For example, the Madwifi driver
  115. creates both an athX and a wifiX interface where X is a digit. To
  116. differentiate these interfaces, add an appropriate KERNEL parameter such as
  117. KERNEL=="ath*" after SUBSYSTEM=="net".</para>
  118. <para>There may be other cases where the rules above don't work. Currently,
  119. bugs on this topic are still being reported to Linux distributions, and no
  120. solution that covers every case is available.</para>
  121. </sect2>
  122. <sect2>
  123. <title>Creating Network Interface Configuration Files</title>
  124. <para>Which interfaces are brought up and down by the network script
  125. depends on the files and directories in the <filename
  126. class="directory">/etc/sysconfig/network-devices</filename> hierarchy.
  127. This directory should contain a sub-directory for each interface to be
  128. configured, such as <filename>ifconfig.xyz</filename>, where
  129. <quote>xyz</quote> is a network interface name. Inside this directory
  130. would be files defining the attributes to this interface, such as its IP
  131. address(es), subnet masks, and so forth.</para>
  132. <para>The following command creates a sample <filename>ipv4</filename>
  133. file for the <emphasis>eth0</emphasis> device:</para>
  134. <screen><userinput>cd /etc/sysconfig/network-devices &amp;&amp;
  135. mkdir -v ifconfig.eth0 &amp;&amp;
  136. cat &gt; ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 &lt;&lt; "EOF"
  137. <literal>ONBOOT=yes
  138. SERVICE=ipv4-static
  139. IP=192.168.1.1
  140. GATEWAY=192.168.1.2
  141. PREFIX=24
  142. BROADCAST=192.168.1.255</literal>
  143. EOF</userinput></screen>
  144. <para>The values of these variables must be changed in every file to match
  145. the proper setup. If the <envar>ONBOOT</envar> variable is set to
  146. <quote>yes</quote> the network script will bring up the Network Interface
  147. Card (NIC) during booting of the system. If set to anything but
  148. <quote>yes</quote> the NIC will be ignored by the network script and not
  149. be brought up.</para>
  150. <para>The <envar>SERVICE</envar> variable defines the method used for
  151. obtaining the IP address. The LFS-Bootscripts package has a modular IP
  152. assignment format, and creating additional files in the <filename
  153. class="directory">/etc/sysconfig/network-devices/services</filename>
  154. directory allows other IP assignment methods. This is commonly used for
  155. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), which is addressed in the
  156. BLFS book.</para>
  157. <para>The <envar>GATEWAY</envar> variable should contain the default
  158. gateway IP address, if one is present. If not, then comment out the
  159. variable entirely.</para>
  160. <para>The <envar>PREFIX</envar> variable needs to contain the number of
  161. bits used in the subnet. Each octet in an IP address is 8 bits. If the
  162. subnet's netmask is 255.255.255.0, then it is using the first three octets
  163. (24 bits) to specify the network number. If the netmask is 255.255.255.240,
  164. it would be using the first 28 bits. Prefixes longer than 24 bits are
  165. commonly used by DSL and cable-based Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
  166. In this example (PREFIX=24), the netmask is 255.255.255.0. Adjust the
  167. <envar>PREFIX</envar> variable according to your specific subnet.</para>
  168. </sect2>
  169. <sect2 id="resolv.conf">
  170. <title>Creating the /etc/resolv.conf File</title>
  171. <indexterm zone="resolv.conf">
  172. <primary sortas="e-/etc/resolv.conf">/etc/resolv.conf</primary>
  173. </indexterm>
  174. <para>If the system is going to be connected to the Internet, it will
  175. need some means of Domain Name Service (DNS) name resolution to
  176. resolve Internet domain names to IP addresses, and vice versa. This is
  177. best achieved by placing the IP address of the DNS server, available
  178. from the ISP or network administrator, into
  179. <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>. Create the file by running the
  180. following:</para>
  181. <screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/resolv.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
  182. <literal># Begin /etc/resolv.conf
  183. domain <replaceable>&lt;Your Domain Name&gt;</replaceable>
  184. nameserver <replaceable>&lt;IP address of your primary nameserver&gt;</replaceable>
  185. nameserver <replaceable>&lt;IP address of your secondary nameserver&gt;</replaceable>
  186. # End /etc/resolv.conf</literal>
  187. EOF</userinput></screen>
  188. <para>Replace <replaceable>&lt;IP address of the nameserver&gt;</replaceable>
  189. with the IP address of the DNS most appropriate for the setup. There will
  190. often be more than one entry (requirements demand secondary servers for
  191. fallback capability). If you only need or want one DNS server, remove the
  192. second <emphasis>nameserver</emphasis> line from the file. The IP address
  193. may also be a router on the local network.</para>
  194. </sect2>
  195. </sect1>