[et-mgmt-tools] koan automatic network configuration patch

[Al Tobey]

On 10/17/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> wrote:
> Al Tobey wrote:
> > Attached is a patch to add a -A/--autonet option to koan.
> >
> > As an introduction, here's the relevant part of the man page:
> >
> > --autonet Tells koan to configure the installer's networking on the
> > kernel command line using ip=/netmask=/gateway=, etc..   First, it
> > will download the kickstart configuration and check for a network
> > --bootproto=static method.  If that fails and --replace-self has been
> > specified, it will use the current system's network configuration, as
> > found using iproute2.
> >
> >
> To summarize: it keeps the real or virtual system from having to
> initially DHCP when enough information is
> stored in Cobbler (or can be found on the local system) so that it's not
> required.    Depending on the kickstarts
> employed, the kickstart may still indicate a DHCP configuration, so this
> would only save the initial DHCP.
>
> Did I get that right?

Yes, that's exactly right.

> > Obviously this only supports Linux systems.    Also, this isn't really
> > useful to most people without cobbler 0.6.3 (unreleased) or weird
> > template hacks to do netmask/gateway lookups like I'm using.  It's
> > working really well for me both on Xen VM's and for re-imaging servers
> > to new/different OS's.
> >
> For clarification, Cobbler 0.6.3 is relevant because each NIC has an
> optional --gateway and --subnet parameter, where
> before there's not as clean of a way to save/access that information
> (--ksmeta).
>
>
> > Please comment.
> > -Al Tobey