On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:01:19PM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote: > OK. I'm very happy to have raised this problem... In the past I've had > some problems setting up a set of PCs using eth1... ;) > > As Sean said SystemImager has the concept of 1 ip per machine. In some > cases the network configuration to reach the image server could be > different from the configuration when the machine will work in > production... i.e. some clients that use eth0 as private network (to > reach the image server and for administrative purposes) and eth1 as > public network (for services). In this case at the end of the > installation I'd like to have both eth0 and eth1 setted up. > > So to cover as many cases as possibile, probably, we should consider > different network configurations (up to one for each interface). > > The solution proposed by Brian is good, but it introduces a new config file. > > The Erich's solution sounds good, but forces to use always > SystemInstaller package (due to SIS DB dependency).
My own personal opinion is that SystemInstaller solved the problem already,
and using that as the front end if you want this functionality is the right
approach. What is wrong with using SystemInstaller?
Anything that reinvents this all over again is largely a waste of time.
> However if we will use the SIS DB we could generate the
> systemconfigurator config file when the autoinstallscript is generated;
> I mean the Server.pm should include the code to parse the SIS DB and
> produce the list of interfaces to pass to systemconfigurator, instead of
> using the infrastructure with sisqd and sisqc proposed by Erich. I think
> this infrastructure could be useful as an "extension" (look to autoconf
> stuff...), but IMHO it shouldn't be mandatory...
You don't just need parsing, you need a way to put that info in there... and
that way is SystemInstaller. Just use it.
Anything else is going to require reimplementing a good chunk of the SIn
code, and probably causing incompatibilities with upstream users like OSCAR,
which would be very bad.
-Sean
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