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

2019-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Schweer
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 04:15:56PM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > I agree. We will test your ifplugd approach in our lab. IMO the 'one IP only' issue and ifplugd are rather unrelated. If you already have the mentioned laptops/netbooks configured to correctly switch wired <-> wireless connection

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

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

2019-01-29 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi, On Di 29 Jan 2019 22:32:40 CET, Dominik George wrote: Hi, at the schools we maintain in Schleswig-Holstein, we regularly run into an issue that becomes more and more pressing. We add puppet on top of Debian Edu to maintain the system over the years and deploy customer requested changes

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

2019-01-29 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > at the schools we maintain in Schleswig-Holstein, we regularly run into an > issue that becomes more and more pressing. > > We add puppet on top of Debian Edu to maintain the system over the years and > deploy customer requested changes on top of Debian Edu systems. > > Puppet is really

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

2019-01-29 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: debian-edu-config Version: 2.10.58 Severity: wishlist Hi, at the schools we maintain in Schleswig-Holstein, we regularly run into an issue that becomes more and more pressing. We add puppet on top of Debian Edu to maintain the system over the years and deploy customer requested