On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 09:44 -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 14:11 -0500, Kevin Thorley wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:28 -0500, Kathleen Eccles wrote:
> > > Has anyone seen this behavior?
> > > Revision: 14720
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Failed to read configuration for                             │ 
> > > 
> > > │      /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0                 │ 
> > > 
> > > │
> > > Enter network interface settings for this system:     
> > 
> > Yes, I believe it is because you are using DHCP. Just enter the values
> > manually and all should be fine
> 
> See
>    http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev/msg16146.html
> 
> for why this was done.

There are two difficulties with the present situation:

The major one is that to the naive reader, the message seems to imply
that the script could not read /etc/.../ifcfg-eth0.  This is confusing,
because the file is present and readable.  It would help greatly if the
message pointed out that it could not find the IP address and netmask in
the file.

The minor one is that it seems to be an unfriendly interface to not be
able to find and read the IP address and netmask if eth0 is configured
by DHCP (which it might well be in many enterprise situations).  It is
also more error-prone to have users manually enter the address than it
would be to query the system.

Dale


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