Martin Zobel-Helas <zo...@debian.org> writes: > On Thu Jan 27, 2011 at 13:19:49 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Martin Zobel-Helas <zo...@debian.org> writes: >> >>> it would be nice if the debian-installer could support network bonding >>> on several interfaces. >> >> Why do you think it's worth the effort? Installation isn't performance >> critical, nor does it require high availability. And you can easily >> configure bonding after installation. So I'm not sure it's worth the >> added complexity. (I'm saying this although I routinely write out >> bonding-enabled /etc/network/interfaces from a finish.d script... :) > > I installed Debian quite often recently in an existing environment, and > actually, using balancing mode, you everytime need to reconfigure the > switch to not route every second package to the interface not being > available in the installer. That is kind of boring, and my idea is, > Debian could do better.
Fascinating. Why is the other interface up at all? Or does the switch simply not care? Anyway, I'm certainly not against this, but d-i has traditionally been rather wary about growing new features. That said, bonding doesn't require extra utilities (being fully configurable through sysfs), so this probably isn't a serious issue. -- Cheers, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
