The 7.3-RELEASE release notes indicate that sysinstall now supports a list of network interfaces in the netDev (install.cfg) parameter. After upgrading to 7.3-RELEASE (via csup) sysinstall does not seem to support that feature. Also, the man page doesn't contain any mention of the new feature. Is this the code committed by Rink Springer last October? This feature would sure be great for our many scripted installs (avoiding the hassles associated with plugging the cable into the wrong interface or having the interface type change unexpectedly due to hardware swaps). Thanks.
Hi David, On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:19:11PM -0400, David Boyd wrote:> Is this the code committed by Rink Springer last October?The code I committed (revision 198317) added support for 'netDev=ANY'; this would select the first device that has an active link. Note that the value is case sensitive, so only using 'ANY' will work.> This feature would sure be great for our many scripted installs (avoiding > the hassles associated with plugging the cable into the wrong interface or > having the interface type change unexpectedly due to hardware swaps).What exactly happens in such a case? Is the line planly ignored? Are you using a non-interactive install? Regards, -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth." - Dr. Wilson
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:51 PM, David Boyd <David.Boyd@insightbb.com> wrote:> Randi, > > Sorry for taking so long to reply. > > I won't be able to retry this today. > > But I looked at the code in tcpip.c and the support for the comma separated > list of interface names (or netDev=ALL) is just not there in 7.3-RELEASE. > > I looked at the csup'd source and at the source from the dvd1 image.Yeah, I suspect this wasn't MFC'ed and the release notes will need to be corrected. I'm going to double check this later tonight. FWIW, if this is something you are really that interested in having work, it will work just fine in 7.3-RELEASE, you'd just have to build it yourself. -- randi