Hi,

I am the following on a SAM9G45 board when boot using flash as a filesystem:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:3E:26:0A:55
inet addr:192.192.192.200 Bcast:192.192.192.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:199 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:29682 (28.9 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:25 Base address:0xc000

/etc/network/interfaces:

# Configure Loopback
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.200
gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255

Also, can someone explain why /etc/init.d has the following contents:

[root@Mini6045:/etc/init.d]# ls -al
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Jun 29 2010 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Jun 29 2010 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2482 Jun 24 2010 S01udev
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1365 Jun 24 2010 S20urandom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 397 Jun 24 2010 S40network
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 90 Jun 29 2010 S50modules
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 408 Jun 24 2010 rcS

I expected /etc/init.d/networking et al.

Thanks,

Kenny

Hello,

Is it only once the board has started? What happens if you do ifdown/ifup?


Ludovic

This seems to work but with some errors that I do not understand.

[root@Mini6045:/]# ping 192.168.1.8
PING 192.168.1.8 (192.168.1.8): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
[root@Mini6045:/]# ifdown eth0
ifdown: interface eth0 not configured
[root@Mini6045:/]# ifup eth0
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d: No such file or directory
run-parts: /etc/network/if-up.d: No such file or directory
ifup: can't open '/var/run/ifstate': No such file or directory
[root@Mini6045:/]# ping 192.168.1.8
PING 192.168.1.8 (192.168.1.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.8: seq=0 ttl=64 time=195.683 ms

This notion of using BusyBox may be a source of my problem. I was trying the usual Linux stuff:

/etc/init.d/networking stop | start

Instead there is

/etc/init.d/S40network

and inside this script the network is hardcoded:case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting network..."
# /sbin/ifup -a
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.192.192.200 netmask 255.255.255.0
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping network..."
# /sbin/ifdown -a
# /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
# /sbin/ifconfig eth1 down
;;
restart|reload)
"$0" stop
"$0" start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac

exit $?

So what is the proper way to configure the network? Sorry, this must be a newbie question. I can't seem to find good resources for this kind of information (recommendations?).

Is there only one runlevel in embedded linux? Is that why the startup scripts are all dumped in to /etc/init.d rather than links to the master scripts in the runlevel directories?

Thanks,

Kenny