Quoting Robert Edmonds (edmonds@debian.org): > > Ready to implement this in netcfg? :-) > > maybe. it's python, right? where is the trunk? Aha. Nothing in D-I is python. Too big stuff netcfg is implemented in C. It is one of the few parts in D-I that's coded in C. > > PS: that would probably need some debconf stuff to implement a dialog > > saying something like "Waiting for the network link...". > > and some sort of error message if the default gateway doesn't respond > after a long time. > > and it would have to be conditional on a default gateway being > configured. i guess there is a pathological case where you could do a > net install with servers that are all on the local network. > > > I'd suggest to add such a detection *after* the first attempt to use > > the network fails... > > why? it's not optional for the gateway router to ignore ARP (unlike > ICMP echo), or else it couldn't function as a router, so the check must > succeed 100% of the time. and the attempts to use the network could > fail for other reasons. That was just a (quite minor) suggestion, indeed..:-)
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