On Wednesday 04 January 2012 13:42 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > 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
I think, to change the gateway address would be ok and is the right move, but would suggest to announce it heavily, with a good description why we are doing it, where ever we can. There are a lot of schools I know of, which are not able to or they are not allowed to configure the gateway. They have to ask a third party (goverment, it-service, ... ) to do this for them and maybe in some (most? I don't know) cases it will cost money. Greetings Jürgen Leibner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
