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Bug#308894: marked as done (add debconf questions for naming network interfaces)

Your message dated Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:36:37 +0200
with message-id <200604282336.37908.aragorn@tiscali.nl>
and subject line Bug#308894: naming net devices
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist

It would be really cool if during an install you could be prompted to
name the various network interfaces for use with nameif. Maybe this
question would only occur if you had more than one interface or were in
expert mode.

"You appear to have more than one network interface. Would you like to
  change their default names to something more meaningful to help you
  differentiate them?" yes/no
"Select the interface to name" interfaces listed with MAC address,
  driver name, and lspci data
"Enter a new name for the interface" textfield

and for extra credit maybe even a screen that helps you determine which
  is which based on link state (and you can plug/unplug to determine).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Thanks,

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org

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On Saturday 22 April 2006 08:21, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 04:09:26PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:
> > It would be nice to solve this and also get it integrated into d-i.
>
> udev 0.090 does this on its own.

As Joey Hess has confirmed that persistent NIC naming indeed seems to work 
for new installs, adding a question to name interfaces seems like 
something that's better done manually after the installation at the 
discretion of the sysadmin. Especially as I understand that the latest 
udev and nameif may conflict.

Therefore I'm closing this report.

Cheers,
FJP

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