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authorJeremy Utley <jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-01-05 15:05:10 +0000
committerJeremy Utley <jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-01-05 15:05:10 +0000
commit6fcb4bbec6ba619f10a338d45c8cde2cbe3671dc (patch)
treeda5fe29a4b1071509b07c3c761b1e548c1f56f9d /chapter07
parent8a2465b814c6c38eb078b73d2df6a4de57bbbfe7 (diff)
Minor textual correction in the network configuration - closes bug 1013
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/testing/BOOK@4492 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/chapter07/network.xml b/chapter07/network.xml
index 83c7b7fb3..7789448fc 100644
--- a/chapter07/network.xml
+++ b/chapter07/network.xml
@@ -23,12 +23,16 @@ class="directory">/etc/rc.d/rc*.d</filename>).</para>
<sect2>
<title>Creating Network Interface Configuration Files</title>
+<!-- Edit Me -->
<para>Which interfaces are brought up and down by the network script
-depends on the files in the <filename
-class="directory">/etc/sysconfig/network-devices</filename> directory.
-This directory should contain files in the form of
-<filename>ifconfig.xyz</filename>, where <quote>xyz</quote> is a
-network interface name (such as eth0 or eth0:1).</para>
+depends on the files and directories in the <filename
+class="directory">/etc/sysconfig/network-devices</filename> hierarchy.
+This directory should contain a directory for each interface to be configured,
+such as <filename>ifconfig.xyz</filename>, where <quote>xyz</quote> is a
+network interface name. Inside this directory would be files defining
+the attributes to this interface, such as its IP address(es), subnet
+masks, and so forth.</para>
+<!-- -->
<para>If the <filename
class="directory">/etc/sysconfig/network-devices</filename> directory