Bug#694965: netcfg: Allow setup of pointopoint routes to reach gateway

[Michael Neuffer <neuffer@neuffer.com>]

Package: netcfg
Severity: wishlist

Please add the possibility to specify pointopoint
routes when setting up the networking in the Debian Installer.

The result would look like something like this:

iface eth0 inet static
        address a.b.c.d
        netmask 255.255.255.255
        gateway e.f.g.h
        pointopoint e.f.g.h


Afterwards this routing would look like:

root@alpha:~# ip route
default via e.f.g.h dev eth0
e.f.g.h dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src a.b.c.d
root@alpha:~# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0     e.f.g.h         0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
e.f.g.h     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 eth0



At the moment I don't know of any other way to configure this besides
skipping the network confguration at installation time and then doing a
manual network configuration afterwards.

Or is there some other option that I'm just not aware of?

With the growing shortage of IPv4 adress space this will probably become 
more and more common.

At least for one large hoster in Germany this is already the standard
mode of operation if you want to have more then one IP address (for
virtual machines for example).

Cheers
  Mike