Bug#887656: Non-obvious way to set static IPv4 address

To: Peter Roozemaal <mathfox@freedom.nl>, 887656@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#887656: Non-obvious way to set static IPv4 address
From: Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 23:21:27 +0200
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Hi Peter,

Peter Roozemaal <mathfox@freedom.nl> wrote:
> I also ran into this issue with both the bullseye and buster installer.
> May I suggest an automatic fallback to manual configuration after DHCP
> failure?

Your suggestion (as I understand it) describes a different situation as the one 
in the original bugreport:

You suggested to fall back to manual configuration if DHCP fails. This is
indeed implemented like this already.

This bugreport is about using manual configuration even if DHCP succeeds!

Holger

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