[Ovirt-devel] Re: [PATCH node] Only allow initial networking to be configured. bz#507393

[Alan Pevec]

Perry Myers wrote:
> On 06/23/2009 10:10 AM, Alan Pevec wrote:
>> NAK, it should still be possible to reconfigure networking, but only from
>> scratch - i.e. must start by selecting NIC and then DNS, NTP, earsing the
>> old configuration.
>> The actual bug is that configure_ntp modifies ntp.conf directly, it 
>> should
>> be applied only when confirmed, as for the other configs.
> 
> We should also allow the user to reenter this menu with an already set 
> up nic and just edit DNS/NTP settings w/o having to re setup the NIC.

it must always be from scratch b/c of possible side-effects how NIC is setup: e.g. DNS/NTP is overwritten if DHCP is selected (if, like in most cases, DHCP server is configured to send those settings)