Bug#282650: default gateway also incorrect

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Quoting Paul Telford (pxt@debian.org):
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, this is all due to netcfg calculating default values for these
> > things based on the ip address and other info. It's tricky to do that and
> > allow for preseeding too;
> 
> So the comments in the example preseed file[1] which say "If you prefer to
> configure the network manually, here's how" are essentially meaningless?
> Why is there even an option if it is going to be ignored?


Be cause bugs exist..:-)

The preseed code is fairly new (late July) and though it was
intensively tested, it has been tested by only a few people...none of
them using fixed address settings in their test environments.

This is certainly too bad, but this is a common problem in the
installer development, unfortunately...