[K12OSN] Fedora 9 Live LTSP Server, Beta 1
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Mon Aug 25 04:04:05 UTC 2008
Jay Pfaffman wrote:
> I think it works (the only client I have to test with seems to have an
> unsupported network card), though it wasn't smart enough to save my
> Ubuntu boot info, but I suppose I should have known better.
What do you mean by "save my Ubuntu boot info"?
>
> The instructions for configuring the network work, though for some of
> our target audience
>
> " As root, edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX. "
>
> won't mean anything. I was also unclear why it was preferable to
> create a new device rather than just disable the old one.
An old one actually existed prior to adding it in system-config-network?
I checked earlier when I wrote that README and it didn't seem to exist
yet (there were no ifcfg-ethX files).
In any case what we really need is a simple GUI chooser that allows
picking an interface to attach to the ltspbr0 bridge. I talked with Red
Hat's DHCP maintainer, and he gave some suggestions of how to write a
DHCP detector so the chooser could refuse to attach to an interface if
it detected a DHCP server already on that network. Unfortunately the
work required to write all this may be too much for me. I am very slow
at writiting GUI interfaces and I've never programmed for low-level
network protocols before.
Even without a GUI chooser, isn't all these steps significantly easier
than all other LTSP distributions? You cannot escape the difficult and
potentially *dangerous* step of network setup. At least with Fedora
Live that is the ONLY step.
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
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