* Jan-Pieter Jacobs janpieter.jacobs@gmail.com [20060828 17:15]:
Hi, I found something annoying (dunno if it is intended or not, but it doesn't work for m at least. I've got 2 NIC's and I use this box to forward internet to another one/whole network. I use eth0 as internet connection, eth1 witþ a static IP and dnsmasq as DNS/DHCP server. Now if I configure eth1 with the netcardconfig, networking doesn't work any longer. now I found in the home-router-howto at gentoo that the network and gateway option aren't used, so that solved the problem. Maybe this is intentional, or the script should make a difference between an interface which 'receives' internet or one that forwards it.
grml-network (and therefore netcardconfig too) is meant for simple and basic setup of networking. For special setups like yours (which isn't just a simple client anymore) you should configure /etc/network/interfaces on your own. Take a look at /etc/network/interfaces.examples for some usual configuration examples.
But maybe I can find a solution for your problem for netcardconfig anyway. What do you exactly expect from netcardconfig? You want to be able to get something like:
iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.9.253 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 nameserver 195.58.160.194
instead of:
iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.9.253 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.9.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.9.1 nameserver 195.58.160.194
?
BTW i've written a little script to enable routing with iptables, if you want it, drop me a note.
If it might be useful for grml - for sure, just mail it to me.
regards, -mika-