RC.INET1(8)RC.INET1(8)NAMErc.inet1 - Slackware network configuration script.
DESCRIPTION
rc.inet1. This script configures network interfaces. Wireless inter‐
faces are configured just like any network device but accept many more
configuration parameters.
rc.inet1 reads its configuration parameters from a file
`rc.inet1.conf'. The `rc.inet1.conf' file contains a series of vari‐
able array definitions, with each array index corresponding to a single
network interface.
OPTIONS
The way to start your network (the configuration of your nics and
bringing the interfaces up, and creating a default route if required)
is by running the command:
/etc/rc.d.rc.inet1
Restarting the whole network (all available network interfaces) is done
in a similar fashion:
/etc/rc.d.rc.inet1 restart
More generically speaking, you can start/stop/restart any network
interface yourself by running one of the commands:
/etc/rc.d.rc.inet1 INTERFACE_start
/etc/rc.d.rc.inet1 INTERFACE_stop
/etc/rc.d.rc.inet1 INTERFACE_restart
where `INTERFACE' is the name of an existing network interface (eth0,
wlan0, ...)
WIRELESS
The script rc.wireless takes care of configuring the wireless parame‐
ters for a network interface. This script does not run independently.
Instead, it is executed by the generic network configuration script
rc.inet1.
If a wireless interface is detected, rc.wireless will use iwconfig ,
iwpriv and possibly wpa_supplicant to associate the card with an access
point (in managed mode) or peer it with another computer (in ad-hoc
mode), and enable an encryption modus like WPA.
FILES
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 network configuration script
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf parameter definition file (is being read by
rc.inet1 and rc.wireless)
/etc/rc.d/rc.wireless wireless configuration script
/etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf
parameter definition file ( deprecated )
DIAGNOSTICS
If you remove the executable bit from the rc.wireless script, it will
never be executed. This can be beneficial if you have written your own
wireless script and don't want Slackware to mess it up.
CAVEATS
The network interface definitions are stored in variable arrays. The
bash shell has no facilities to retrieve the largest array index used.
Therefore, the rc.inet1 script makes the assumption that array indexes
stay below the value of 6. Effectively this means that you can config‐
ure up to 6 network interfaces in rc.inet1.conf by default.
If you want to configure more than six network interfaces, you will
have to edit the file /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 and change the value `6' in
the line:
MAXNICS=${MAXNICS:-6}
to a value that is larger than the largest index value you use.
The /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless script is not meant to be run on it's own by
the user!
AUTHOR
Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>
SEE ALSOrc.inet1.conf(5), ifconfig(8), iwconfig(8), route(8)Slackware Version 12.2.0 03 Dec 2008 RC.INET1(8)
