Frans Pop wrote: > > eth0: foo bar description, eth0: mac address: xxx:xxx... [slot 1] > > > > That would be one way to do it without modifying debconf. You could also > > get rid of the "eth0: " prefix if you wanted to by using Choices-C. > > I'm probably just being thick, but what exactly are you proposing here? Debconf would display the above example as: eth0: foo bar description eth0: mac address: xxx:xxx... [slot 1] > We already have the test for the link (although I'm not sure that it works > in all cases). Any ideas on how to test for a dhcp server in netcfg? > > Maybe using something like dhcping on all NICs where a link is detected? It could just run dhclient on all NICs in parallel and take the winner. -- see shy jo
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