[K12OSN] EL6 Status TODOs

[Warren Togami Jr.]

On 5/24/2011 5:03 PM, Burke Almquist wrote:
>> (MODERATE) Network Configuration documentation sucks so much that
>> it confused even Warren as he forgot how to add an ethX to the
>> ltspbr0 bridge manually. May require development of better tools to
>> make it less of a crappy manual configuration process.
>
> Were you looking at this?
> https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/NetworkSetup
>
> If anyone has suggestions for making this clearer, please feel free
> to share.
>
> No matter how good the setup tool is, we have no way of knowing if
> they are using one, two, or more network cards, using VLANS, using a
> windows DHCP server, etc. I think that is why we stuck with manual
> configuration using a bridge, it's also one reason the documentation
> is so crappy and confusing, since there are so many possible
> scenarios to cover.

To make matters worse, they removed the GUI system-config-network from 
EL6.  The existing documentation describes using that tool to write out 
an almost-complete config file for the desired ethX device.  But now 
that we have no tool to do that, I had to manually write a config file 
that pulled in the correct ethX device details, MAC address and other 
parameters including NM_CONTROLLED=no so NetworkManager ignores the 
device.  The new documentation would be pretty complicated in describing 
how to choose your ethX devices to attach to ltspbr0 and how to write 
the config manually.

Warren