Bug#454493: Bug#455485: prompt for static network configuration when more then two NICs
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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