So,

Let's go ahead and tackle this.  There have been a handful of methods
suggested for handling multiple interfaces in SystemImager in the past. 
Has anybody stumbled upon what they think is a "ringer"?

-Brian


Sean Dague wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 10:07:14AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  
>
>> sub write_sc_command {
>>     my ( $out, $ip_assignment_method ) = @_;
>>+
>>+    # Configure the network device used to contact the image-server -AR-
>>+    print $out "[ -z \$DEVICE ] && DEVICE=eth0\n";
>>+    
>>     my $sc_excludes_to = "/etc/systemimager/systemconfig.local.exclude";
>>     my $sc_cmd = "chroot /a/ systemconfigurator 
>> --excludesto=$sc_excludes_to";
>>     if ($ip_assignment_method eq "replicant") {
>>@@ -1595,7 +1599,7 @@
>>     print $out "\n";
>> 
>>     print $out "[INTERFACE0]\n";
>>-    print $out "DEVICE = eth0\n";
>>+    print $out "DEVICE = \$DEVICE\n";
>>    
>>
>
>I don't think you should change this last portion.  There are a lot of users
>that make assumptions on [INTERFACE0] ending up to be eth0 (including the
>OSCAR folks) and changing that to be the install interface will break
>some other things.
>
>The right thing is doing multiple interfaces through SystemImager.  So while
>shutting down $DEVICE is definitely a good thing, setting up $DEVICE by
>default with SystemConfigurator is a change in behavior that is going to
>break some people.
>
>       -Sean
>
>  
>

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