Bug#615600: Bug#504753: Bug#615600: BOOTIF= kernel commandline option does not work
reassign 615600 netcfg retitle 615600 Please allow selecting interface by its MAC address thanks Quoting Thomas Mieslinger (thomas.mieslin...@1und1.de): To get my job done all those 5000 Machines must comply to some very very basic guidelines. After the installation, the inner interface is always eth0 if there is a public interface, it is eth1. If there are crosslinks they are eth1 and onward. I need a simple and powerful mechanism to enforce this against the quirks of udev and bioses. You may want to develop the needed support for such things in netcfg. From what I read of Joey's answer, a solution could be allowing to specify the wanted interface by its MAC address, in netcfg, through a specific boot parameter...or s specific handling of the existing interface parameter. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#615600: Bug#504753: Bug#615600: BOOTIF= kernel commandline option does not work
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 06:39:48AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Thomas Mieslinger (thomas.mieslin...@1und1.de): To get my job done all those 5000 Machines must comply to some very very basic guidelines. After the installation, the inner interface is always eth0 if there is a public interface, it is eth1. If there are crosslinks they are eth1 and onward. I need a simple and powerful mechanism to enforce this against the quirks of udev and bioses. You may want to develop the needed support for such things in netcfg. Are there any docs for netcfg? After a cursory glance at the source package, it looks like the docs are contained in those nice .c and .h files with a little too little documentation about the interfaces. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things.Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#615600: Bug#504753: Bug#615600: BOOTIF= kernel commandline option does not work
Marc Haber mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de writes: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 06:39:48AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Thomas Mieslinger (thomas.mieslin...@1und1.de): To get my job done all those 5000 Machines must comply to some very very basic guidelines. After the installation, the inner interface is always eth0 if there is a public interface, it is eth1. If there are crosslinks they are eth1 and onward. I need a simple and powerful mechanism to enforce this against the quirks of udev and bioses. You may want to develop the needed support for such things in netcfg. Are there any docs for netcfg? After a cursory glance at the source package, it looks like the docs are contained in those nice .c and .h files with a little too little documentation about the interfaces. There's no docs for netcfg, AFAIK, but it isn't that complicated. However, Matt Palmer is currently reorganizing the code, so you'd better synchronize with him before you start fiddling with it. On the other hand, the issue at hand probably doesn't belong into netcfg. Naming network interfaces is a job for udev, and netcfg can simply use eth0 after that, if I read Thomas correctly. I routinely do this by putting /etc/udev/rules.d/60-manual-net.rules into the installer initramfs AND copying it into /target at the end of the installation. One could make this fully dynamic if needed, even without remastering the initramfs, by elaborate preseed/early_command specifications. -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
