Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:05:13PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> 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.
But wasn't ppp originally intended to connect multiple networks? In
this (IMHO _very_ common) scenario you would always have at least two
interfaces: ppp to the provider and a statically configured interface
to the local network. Further, you would probably provide DHCP/DNS
servers (e.g. via dnsmasq) for the local network. This gives the
setup I mentioned above.
I don't see the point in having ppp as your one and only interface.
Is this scenario really _that_ common? Who would want to use such
a setup?
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