Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important
Robert LeBlanc <robert@leblancnet.us> writes:
> I too have been bitten by this. For as flexible as the Debian Installer is
> and everything you can do, it's pretty disappointing that it can't do VLANs.
> A lot of enterprises use VLANs, and it seems it would be important to have
> VLAN support to install Debian. It's no fun to reconfigure the network just
> to install/reinstall.
I hacked VLAN support into the Sarge installer once upon a time. It
wasn't a big deal, like adding the vconfig binary and extending netcfg
here and there a little bit. The problem is that you can't just
download it like the other optional components, so it would waste memory
in the vast majority of installations. Which wouldn't be a problem but
in the more memory constrained situations... I can't judge this.
It would be less of a problem if d-i used the Busybox ip applet *and* if
that supported VLANs. Until then, I'd work around this by adding the
vconfig binary to the installer medium or loading it as "additional
firmware". :)
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Regards,
Feri.
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