Static network configuration

[Stefan Gybas <stefan@gybas.com>]

Hi!

netbase 3.16-1 introduced a new structure for configuring the network 
interfaces using /sbin/ifup and /etc/network/interfaces, however the boot
floppies still create the static network configuration in
/etc/init.d/network.

I'm the maintainer of the Debian linuxconf package and have just written
some code so that Linuxconf can now read the configuration from
/etc/network/interfaces and also write back changes to this file (although
it does not yet preserve comments added by the user). This is AFAIK
currently the only possibility to configure the network using a GUI and
thus the only easy way for beginners.

What do you think about writing the static network configuration that the
user entered during installation to /etc/network/interfaces instead of
/etc/init.d/network? A patch to dbootstrap/netconfig.c is easy (I can
commit these changes to CVS if you agree).

-- 
Stefan Gybas