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Networking

The preferred way of setting up your network connection is through the use of the netconfig program.

rc.inet1

rc.inet1's role is simple: it configures your networking devices and sets up your routing. Essentially, rc.inet1 is the file that gives you a network in the first place, reading config options from its config file: rc.inet1.conf.

This configuration file is pretty simple, it supports up to 3 different networking devices. For each device there's a section like the following:

# Config information for eth0: IPADDR[0]="" NETMASK[0]="" USE_DHCP[0]="" DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""