retitle 414117 netcfg link detection confused by multiple interfaces with same driver
thanks
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:55:02PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 09 March 2007 09:49, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> > System has two ethernet interfaces. Same type of device, just different
> > MACs. The installer consistently picked the "wrong" interface during
> > installation - i.e. the one that was not plugged in.
> > I tried a couple of i386 netinst installs, and one using the amd64
> > netinst. Behaviour was consistent in all these cases.
>
> Reassigning to netcfg for this issue. The installer does link detection,
> but it is possible that it gets confused with completely identical NICs
> as those currently "look" the same to debconf.
This assertion sounded strange to me, and after looking at the code, I
see that netcfg uses the interface name (eth0, eth1, etc.) to iterate
through all interfaces, detect a link and select a default.
I have done installations on various servers with multiple ethernet
devices using the same driver and never experienced a similar issue.
Vincent, have you made another Debian installation on the same system
since your original installation report (9 Mar 2007)? Did you
experencie a similar issue? If you have not, would you take the time to
boot a recent build of d-i (netboot mini.iso will do) and see if the
problem is still there?
(As network configuration is done pretty early, you don't need to go
really far in the installaion process.)
Cheers,
--
Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
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