Bug#920861: Use same $HOSTNAME for hosts on LAN and WiFi

2019-01-31 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Nik, On Do 31 Jan 2019 15:27:52 CET, Dominik George wrote: I believe Debian Edu should be agnostic of the underlying network, layer-2-wise. The situation here is really very general - think of the ability to take a workstation (laptop) home and connect through a VPN. Same issues here. And

Bug#920861: Use same $HOSTNAME for hosts on LAN and WiFi

2019-01-31 Thread Dominik George
I believe Debian Edu should be agnostic of the underlying network, layer-2-wise. The situation here is really very general - think of the ability to take a workstation (laptop) home and connect through a VPN. Same issues here. And probably for a lot of other situations. Therefore, I find it

Bug#920861: Use same $HOSTNAME for hosts on LAN and WiFi

2019-01-31 Thread Wolfgang Schweer
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 01:25:47PM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > How about "Wireless-Workstation"? You could use anything that sounds useful. > Plus, don't we have to introduce that profile name at various other > places (NOTE: I am not talking about the installer, this profile name > change

Bug#920861: Use same $HOSTNAME for hosts on LAN and WiFi

2019-01-31 Thread Dominik George
> What about simply mirror the MAC address from the ethernet interface to > the wifi interface? This way the same IP address and DNS name will be > assigned to the host, no matter which interface is used. > > It could be solved using a simple script during boot and the macchanger > program.

Bug#920861: Use same $HOSTNAME for hosts on LAN and WiFi

2019-01-31 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > tell me more... How do you set up ifplugd and how do you persuade GOsa's > DHCP stuff to accept duplicate IPs? ifplugd is straightforward - jsut answer the debconf questions correctly, or preseed them. In GOsa, you add the host with its primary interface address. Then go to the DHCP

Bug#920861: Use same $HOSTNAME for hosts on LAN and WiFi

2019-01-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Mike Gabriel] > Is this something, we can provide via Debian Edu directly? Our > alternative here is to override update-hostname-from-ip with > dpkg-divert here locally, which I would like to avoid. What about simply mirror the MAC address from the ethernet interface to the wifi interface?

Bug#920861: Use same $HOSTNAME for hosts on LAN and WiFi

2019-01-31 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Wolfgang, On Do 31 Jan 2019 13:14:07 CET, Wolfgang Schweer wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:28:02PM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: This could all be avoided if the update-hostname-from-ip could be taught the above (or a similar) hack. Is this something, we can provide via Debian Edu

Bug#920861: Use same $HOSTNAME for hosts on LAN and WiFi

2019-01-31 Thread Wolfgang Schweer
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:28:02PM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > This could all be avoided if the update-hostname-from-ip could be taught the > above (or a similar) hack. > > Is this something, we can provide via Debian Edu directly? Our alternative > here is to override update-hostname-from-ip