diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6819b220d..39c15988a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
     `localhost` is not always loopback.
   - New `shell` provisioner which simply uploads and executes a script as
     root on the VM.
+  - Gentoo host only networking no longer fails if alrady setup. [GH-286]
 
 ## 0.7.0 (January 19, 2011)
 
diff --git a/lib/vagrant/systems/gentoo.rb b/lib/vagrant/systems/gentoo.rb
index 5c005e5b8..d557d70d5 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant/systems/gentoo.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant/systems/gentoo.rb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ module Vagrant
         vm.ssh.upload!(StringIO.new(entry), "/tmp/vagrant-network-entry")
 
         vm.ssh.execute do |ssh|
-          ssh.exec!("sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth#{net_options[:adapter]}")
+          ssh.exec!("sudo ln -fs /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth#{net_options[:adapter]}")
           ssh.exec!("sudo /etc/init.d/net.eth#{net_options[:adapter]} stop 2> /dev/null")
           ssh.exec!("sudo su -c 'cat /tmp/vagrant-network-entry >> /etc/conf.d/net'")
           ssh.exec!("sudo /etc/init.d/net.eth#{net_options[:adapter]} start")