On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 01:03:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I did nto asked to add the pppoe-Code but to add a little mask into the
| installer to create the hostname.pppoe.
|
| Like:
|
| Wich device should be used for pppoe? [fxp0] :
| pppoe protocol? [bla]:
| User ID for pppoe: foo
| Password for pppoe: bar
| PPPOE-Successfully configured and useable after reboot
|
| Just like:
|
| Start sshd? [Yes]:
|
| Is it such a heavy change?
It is quite intrusive and contra intuitive. The installer asks
questions that are relevant to most installs. I wouldn't consider
pppoe to be relevant to most installs. ssh and ntpd *are* relevant to
most installs (IMO).
If we're adding pppoe support, why not gif ? vlan ? carp ? pfsync ?
trunk ? bridge ? A myriad of other networking devices ? How about
IPsec ?
| You don`t have ntfs-Code int he floppy-Kernels but I can still edit the
| /etc/fstab before the system reboots.
You can still edit /etc/hostname.pppoe0 before the system reboots.
Just like you can create similar files for your gif, vlan, carp,
pfsync, trunk, bridge and whatnot devices. Nothing is changed. Why
should pppoe be special cased ? Why should you be special cased ? I
want vlan(4) support in the installer, I want to be special cased.
Try to write a shell script that asks the questions you proposed and
generates a sane hostname.if file from the answers. See how large it
is. Try to fit in on the install media (1.44M *is* a tight fit). If it
works for you, post it here so others can use it if they so desire,
but I doubt it would get included.
OK, I admit .. you're quite a special case...
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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