From: Mauro DePalma (mauro@netcom.com)
Date: 06/13/93


From: mauro@netcom.com (Mauro DePalma)
Subject: net-2 on a laptop
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 03:23:01 GMT


   Greetings,

     I am posting the following after having seen many articles posted
     on troubles with net-2.

       I have Linux on several PCs one is the designated as 'bleeding edge'
     also it is an Avanti 486 laptop.

     On it presently Linux is at release 0.99.10 with libc-4.4 and net-2.
     X still works (apparently the key is to be able to `ping localhost`)
     anyhoe, here is the /etc/rc.net:

_BEGIN_INCLUDE
# /etc/rc.net -- (argos) Avanti 486SLC

# Linux networking startup script. Should be run by /etc/rc.local at
# boot time. Configures the interfaces and starts the deamons.
# It assumes hostname has been set.

CONFIG=/etc/ifconfig
ROUTE=/etc/route

HOSTS=/etc/hosts
HOSTNAME=`hostname`
IPADDR=`grep "^[^#]*\b$HOSTNAME\b" $HOSTS | cut -f1`

echo "$HOSTNAME --> $IPADDR"

$CONFIG lo localhost
$ROUTE add localhost gw localhost metric 0
_END_INCLUDE

   Ciao,
   Mauro