comment and fix some parts of the documentation, thanks to Harsh Trivedi

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Florian Fainelli 2009-06-08 20:35:05 +00:00
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@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ directly as the Nth argument to \texttt{BuildPackage}.
\begin{itemize}
\item \texttt{SECTION} \\
The type of package (currently unused)
The section of package (currently unused)
\item \texttt{CATEGORY} \\
Which menu it appears in menuconfig: Network, Sound, Utilities, Multimedia ...
\item \texttt{TITLE} \\

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@ -33,8 +33,9 @@ After running \texttt{scan\_interfaces}, the following functions are available:
\subsubsection{Writing protocol handlers}
You can add custom protocol handlers by adding shell scripts to
\texttt{/lib/network}. They provide the following two shell functions:
You can add custom protocol handlers (e.g: PPPoE, PPPoA, ATM, PPTP ...)
by adding shell scripts to \texttt{/lib/network}. They provide the following
two shell functions:
\begin{Verbatim}
scan_<protocolname>() {

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@ -22,7 +22,12 @@ of interfaces and add:
\end{Verbatim}
It is possible to use VLAN tagging on an interface simply by adding the VLAN IDs
to it, e.g. \texttt{eth0.1}. These can be nested as well.
to it, e.g. \texttt{eth0.1}. These can be nested as well. See the switch section for
this.
\begin{Verbatim}
config inter
\end{Verbatim}
This sets up a simple static configuration for \texttt{eth0}. \texttt{proto} specifies the
protocol used for the interface. The default image usually provides \texttt{'none'}
@ -31,11 +36,27 @@ packages.
When using the \texttt{'static'} method like in the example, the options \texttt{ipaddr} and
\texttt{netmask} are mandatory, while \texttt{gateway} and \texttt{dns} are optional.
You can specify more than one DNS server, separated with spaces.
You can specify more than one DNS server, separated with spaces:
\begin{Verbatim}
config interface "lan"
option ifname "eth0"
option proto "static"
...
option dns "192.168.1.254 192.168.1.253" (optional)
\end{Verbatim}
DHCP currently only accepts \texttt{ipaddr} (IP address to request from the server)
and \texttt{hostname} (client hostname identify as) - both are optional.
\begin{Verbatim}
config interface "lan"
option ifname "eth0"
option proto "dhcp"
option ipaddr "192.168.1.1" (optional)
option hostname "openwrt" (optional)
\end{Verbatim}
PPP based protocols (\texttt{pppoe}, \texttt{pptp}, ...) accept these options:
\begin{itemize}
\item{username} \\
@ -55,6 +76,16 @@ PPP based protocols (\texttt{pppoe}, \texttt{pptp}, ...) accept these options:
\end{itemize}
For all protocol types, you can also specify the MTU by using the \texttt{mtu} option.
A sample PPPoE config would look like this:
\begin{Verbatim}
config interface "lan"
option ifname "eth0"
option proto "pppoe"
option username "username"
option password "openwrt"
option mtu 1492 (optional)
\end{Verbatim}
\subsubsection{Setting up static routes}