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Gentoo Networking
To set the FQDN hostname for Gentoo, set it as the first entry in /etc/hosts
:
127.0.0.1 gentoo.beandog.org gentoo localhost
You can see the available interfaces in /sys
:
ls /sys/class/net
Bonding
Install ifenslave package to set up bonding. Also make sure your kernel has bonding enabled, or the bonding
module is loaded.
A basic configuration in Gentoo, where the IP address is set manually.
The bonding interface uses the mac address of the first slave ethernet device listed.
Edit /etc/conf.d/net
# Don't initialize any of the interfaces by default config_eth0="null" config_eth1="null" slaves_bond0="eth0 eth1" mode_bond0="1" miimon_bond0="100" config_bond0="192.168.1.2" routes_bond0="default via 192.168.1.1"