Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?
On Thursday 22 May 2008 14:04:40 Josef Wolf wrote:
> I am curious whether it is really a good idea to point
> $HOSTNAME.$DOMAINNAME to 127.0.1.1. While this works fine for services
> on the local host, it fails if the address is provided to other hosts.
> For example, if one installs dnsmasq, the $HOSTNAME.$DOMAINNAME will
> resolve to 127.0.1.1 for the whole network, which is obviously not the
> right thing to do.
I have thought about this a little bit, but ppp-udeb now does *exactly* the
same thing as netcfg. It did not seem a good idea to deviate from that
without very good reasons and I could not think of any.
> Maybe it would be better to set a hosts entry from ppp-udeb only if
> there are no other network interfaces available. When other interfaces
> exist (e.g. LAN on eth0 if the host in question is a DSL-router), this
> setting should be done by netcfg when it configures this interface.
No. You currently use either ppp-udeb or netcfg, never both. If you use
ppp-udeb, the PPPoE interface is expected to be your primary (and in most
cases only) network interface.
Cheers,
FJP
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