tag 611250 +help tag 611250 +wontfix thanks On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:03:23PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > it would be nice if the debian-installer could support network bonding > on several interfaces.
I'm with Ferenc on this; bonding isn't necessary to install the system, so I'm loathe to put it into d-i. In particular: > This will probably need additional questions during the installation > process: This makes it a UI nightmare if all those questions are asked[1]; even if it's only preseedable, it's still a pain in the arse. To address your later concerns, if your switch is dumb enough to send packets down a link that's down, fix your switch. If your NIC/driver tells the switch that the link is up when it's administratively down, fix your NIC/driver. If netcfg is leaving interfaces administratively up when the system isn't using them, report an appropriately detailed bug and I'll look into it. All that being said, if a patch were to turn up on this bug that handled all the questions in a preseed-only fashion, integrated well with the rest of the netcfg code (it might be better to wait 3 months on that one; I'm currently refactoring all the internals to make extensions like this a lot easier to integrate), I would give it a fair assessment with a view to merging it. - Matt [1] Yes, I'm well aware that most of them would be hidden behind a "do you want to bond interfaces?", but even asking that question would be problematic for the vast majority of users to answer; I'm not a personal fan of lower priority to hide this sort of thing either, because then you bombard the advanced user with piles of questions they just don't want to see from other packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110127195904.gb3...@hezmatt.org
