On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 14:46 -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote: > > 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. > > But in fact we cannot (based on actual installation experience) assume > either that the system is connected to the network at setup time, or > that any network it is connected to is the one it will eventually be run > on. Some installers prefer to do initial setup in a lab environment > that may not even be at the customer site.
That's true -- although that is independent of whether the interface is currently configured via DHCP. I can't remember, though, whether once the setup script thinks it has the interface address whether it presents the information in a screen to be possibly corrected by the user or not. It would seem a good idea that no matter how sipx-setup determined what it thought the address is, it should put up a form giving the address and mask and allowing for changes. And it should caption the screen telling how it got the info, e.g., "static configuration of eth0" or "current DHCP configuration of eth0". Dale _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev
