[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#516806: Should replicate gateway check from netcfg



This one time, at band camp, Martin Michlmayr said:
> * Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> [2009-02-23 20:08]:
> > Michael Hahn reported that the installer didn't boot because netcfg
> > showed a "Unreachable gateway" error message.  oldsys-preseed should
> > implement a similar check and use DHCP if the network configuration is
> > invalid.
> 
> I've implemented this now based on some code Stephen Gran kindly
> wrote.
> 
> Stephen, are you happy to release your code under GPL 2 or later?

Sure.

> The only thing that is not done that netcfg does is to make up a
> netmask based on the IP address if no netmask is given.

If you can point me to the current code, I'm happy to have a look.

Cheers,
-- 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------
|   ,''`.                                            Stephen Gran |
|  : :' :                                        sgran@debian.org |
|  `. `'                        Debian user, admin, and developer |
|    `-                                     http://www.debian.org |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature


Reply to: