[BusyBox] Networking problems

[David Rigler]

Sam Robb wrote:

>All,
>
>  Please forgive if this is a FAQ - but I've searched the docs
>and Google in vain for some information about how to set up
>networking with BusyBox.  I'm particularly frustrated in that
>I *had* gotten networking into a working state, but have since
>managed to muck things up and befuddle myself.
>
>  I have BB set up to generate the ip, ifconfig, etc. applets.
>My kernel has networking support turned on, and my network cards
>are compiled built-in instead of as modules.  Everything comes
>together when I reboot my x86 system (using my kernel and my
>RFS) - the kernel sees the network cards, ifconfig can configure
>them ('ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.101 up'), 'route' returns what
>looks like valid information, etc.
>
>  Despite all that - I am completely unable to see or interact
>with the network.  On a second machine on the same Ethernet hub,
>ethereal doesn't even see the packets generated by this machine;
>they look like they're getting consigned to the network bit-bucket
>for some reason.  When I reboot the system into FC3, I'm able to
>interact with the network on both the network interfaces (eth0
>and eth1) - so I don't think there are any cabling problems or
>hardware problems contributing to the complete lack of networkness :-/
>
>-Samrobb
>
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can i just add to that and ask whoever wrote the networking to take 1/2 
an hour and write a FAQ/HOWTO on the content of '/etc/network/interfaces'


dave