Slackware 13.0slackware-13.0

Wed Aug 26 10:00:38 CDT 2009
Slackware 13.0 x86_64 is released as stable!  Thanks to everyone who
helped make this release possible -- see the RELEASE_NOTES for the
credits.  The ISOs are off to the replicator.  This time it will be a
6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.
We're taking pre-orders now at store.slackware.com.  Please consider
picking up a copy to help support the project.  Once again, thanks to
the entire Slackware community for all the help testing and fixing
things and offering suggestions during this development cycle.
As always, have fun and enjoy!  -P.

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+.\" -*- nroff -*-
+.ds g \" empty
+.ds G \" empty
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+.\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent.
+.de Tp
+.ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP
+.el .TP "\\$1"
+..
+.TH RC.INET1 8 "03 Dec 2008" "Slackware Version 12.2.0"
+.SH NAME
+rc.inet1 \- Slackware network configuration script.
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.BR rc.inet1 .
+This script configures network interfaces.
+Wireless interfaces are configured just like any network device
+but accept many more configuration parameters.
+.br
+rc.inet1 reads its configuration parameters from a file `rc.inet1.conf'.
+The `rc.inet1.conf' file contains a series of variable array definitions,
+with each array index corresponding to a single network interface.
+.SH 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:
+.LP
+.B /etc/rc.d.rc.inet1
+.LP
+Restarting the whole network (all available network interfaces)
+is done in a similar fashion:
+.LP
+.B /etc/rc.d.rc.inet1 restart
+.LP
+More generically speaking, you can start/stop/restart any network
+interface yourself by running one of the commands:
+.LP
+.B /etc/rc.d.rc.inet1 INTERFACE_start
+.LP
+.B /etc/rc.d.rc.inet1 INTERFACE_stop
+.LP
+.B /etc/rc.d.rc.inet1 INTERFACE_restart
+.LP
+where 
+.I `INTERFACE'
+is the name of an existing network interface (eth0, wlan0, ...)
+.SH WIRELESS
+The script
+.I rc.wireless
+takes care of configuring the wireless parameters for a network
+interface. This script does not run independently.  Instead, it is executed
+by the generic network configuration script
+.IR rc.inet1 .
+.br
+If a wireless interface is detected,
+.I rc.wireless
+will use
+.I iwconfig ,
+.I iwpriv
+and possibly
+.I 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.
+.SH FILES
+.TP 25
+.I /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
+network configuration script
+.TP
+.I /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
+parameter definition file (is being read by rc.inet1 and rc.wireless)
+.TP
+.I /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless
+wireless configuration script
+.TP
+.I /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf
+parameter definition file (
+.B deprecated
+)
+.SH DIAGNOSTICS
+If you remove the executable bit from the
+.I 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.
+.SH CAVEATS
+The network interface definitions are stored in variable
+.I arrays.
+The bash shell has no facilities to retrieve the largest array index used.
+Therefore, the
+.I rc.inet1
+script makes the assumption that array indexes stay below the value of
+.BR 6 .
+Effectively this means that you can configure up to 6 network interfaces in
+rc.inet1.conf by default.
+.LP
+If you want to configure more than six network interfaces, you will
+have to edit the file
+.I /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
+and change the value `6' in the line:
+.br
+.B \ \ MAXNICS=${MAXNICS:-6}
+.br
+to a value that is larger than the largest index value you use.
+.LP
+The /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless script is not meant to be run on it's own by the user!
+.SH AUTHOR
+Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR rc.inet1.conf(5),
+.BR ifconfig(8),
+.BR iwconfig(8),
+.BR route(8)