Group: comp.os.linux.networking
From: Nicolas BOUTHORS
Date: Friday, March 07, 2008 4:53 AM
Subject: Re: permanent ifconfig settings

Markus Mayer a écrit :
> Just a short question: How do I make ifconfig settings permanent? I
> disabled the multicast of some of my interfaces but after a restart of
> the network everything seems like it was before.
>
> I'm new to linux and don't understand it's mechanisms yet. (Oh, right,
> I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 if that matters)

Use the /etc/network/interfaces file. There is a manpage associated (man
5 interfaces).

You could add a line in the paragraph for your interface looking like
this :
post-up ifconfig eth0 -allmulti

Adapt with the command you used.

Cheers,

Nicolas


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