Bug#136384: boot-floppies: routing is not automagically set up, when net-installing with plip
Subject: boot-floppies: routing is not automagically set up, when net-installing with plip
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.19
Severity: critical
Justification: makes it almost impossible to install via PLIP
Hi there!
I installed Debian Woody on a notebook computer.
I do not have a PCMCIA networking card, so I decided to use
PLIP. (Parallel Line IP).
I used the net-boot mini-CD images by
Ian Eure <ieure@debian.org>.
(Identical to b-f 3.0.19, see http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ )
Everything went just fine, I installed the kernel and device driver modules to the hard disk,
and configured the necessary device modules. (namely parport, parport_pc and plip)
The I configured the plip0 networking device.
(address 192.168.10.15, netmask 255.255.255.0, P-t-P address 192.168.10.5)
The system reported that it was successfully configured.
But the connection was dead.
All ip packaged were lost.
After some research I realized that the routing was not configured properly.
I executed this:
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* route add -host 192.168.10.5 dev plip0 *
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, and from that point, everyting worked nice again.
One more thing:
I do not know whether this is connected to the error or not,
but when I checked the newly configured plip0 interface
with ifconfig plip0, it reported a wrong P-t-P address.
I do not know where the bug is hiding, but it should be easy to correct.
I'm afraid there might be some users who would be unable to
installing woody via PLIP until someone fixes this thing.
Good wishes,
and thank you
Kristof Csillag
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