Hi. I just discovered that the default setup in Squeeze do not use the first IP address in its subnet as the gateway address. This is a mistake I believe we need to fix.
The new and extended backbone network went from 10.0.2.0/23 to 10.0.0.0/8 earlier this year, but the server and gateway adressess where not moved from 10.0.2.0/23 to 10.0.0.0/8. I believe the gateway should change from 10.0.2.1 to 10.0.0.1. It might be a good idea to move tjener from 10.0.2.2 to 10.0.0.2 too, but that is not equally important. Without this, a lot of third party packages will propose the wrong gateway address when configured to connect to the skolelinux backbone network. We break the principle of least surprise as sysadmins around the globe are used to finding the gateway on the first IP address on a subnet. This change will require some testing, so I suggest we do it first thing after beta2 is released this weekend. As part of this fix, I plan to move the network configuration function from debian-edu-install to debian-edu-config, to get all the subnet related code in one package. Changing the gateway IP address require changes to the function generating /etc/network/interfaces in pre-pkgsel, and updates for the DNS and DHCP setup in LDAP. Changing the tjener IP address require updating all configuration files refering to its IP address. I do not yet have a complete list. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
