Bug#455485: marked as done (prompt for static network configuration when more then two NICs)
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and subject line Bug#455485: prompt for static network configuration when more then two NICs
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Package: netcfg
Severity: wishlist
>From http://bugs.debian.org/454493
> > > 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.
>
> Hmm. Doesn't dhclient do that anyway if you call it without a specific
> interface name? We would indeed have to identify the winner for correct
> creation of /etc/interfaces.
When a computer has more then two network interface cards,
it is very likely that static[1] configuration is wanted.
It would be nice if netcfg offers to do static network configuration
when it sees a thrid NIC.
Interresting side-effect will be that it avoids DHCP on n NICS.
( n could be twenty )
> It would however mean either moving dhclient from netcfg to ethdetect or
> moving interface selection (for the static configuration case) from
> ethdetect to netcfg.
That will lock-out static configuration.
Cheers
Geert Stappers
[1] static in the meaning of "non DHCP"
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On Monday 10 December 2007, Geert Stappers wrote:
> When a computer has more then two network interface cards,
> it is very likely that static[1] configuration is wanted.
This is absolute nonsense, for example in the following, fairly common
situation:
- 1 on-board wired Ethernet NIC
- 1 Firewire NIC
- 1 wireless NIC
We already have the option for static configuration. It's up to the user to
select it.
> > It would however mean either moving dhclient from netcfg to ethdetect
> > or moving interface selection (for the static configuration case) from
> > ethdetect to netcfg.
>
> That will lock-out static configuration.
No, it would not. Or at least, it would of course have to be implemented in
such a way that it does not.
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