UEC Installer Only Configures One Network Interface

[Joseph Salisbury]

I installed a Cluster Controller and Node Controller using the 09-Oct-2009 daily build of Karmic. This bug is to request a future enhancement request to be put on the wish list. During the installation of UEC, one of the questions is the IP Address for eth0 if the network is configured manually versus DHCP. However, the installer only allows one physical Interface to be configured - regardless of the number of physical interfaces on the machine. For example: my machine has four network interfaces, but I could only configure one during the install. Not a major issues since the other interfaces can be configured after the installation is complete, which is why this is a wish list bug.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood-yahoo)]

retitle 257883 netcfg: Please offer to configure all network interfaces

[Joey Hess (joeyh)]

I agree that configuring all interfaces would be nice. I have some
hardware on which I want to have dhcp done on all interfaces, and I'd
just as soon not even pick which to use, just use the first that DHCP'd.
Or maybe even use multiple interfaces with load balancing.

--
see shy jo

[Michael Ablassmeier (abi)]

merge 264984 257883
thanks

sorry, overlooked that one, hope merging is okey.

bye,
    - michael

[Thomas Hood (jdthood-aglu)]

retitle 295888 Lists multiple NICs of same type the same way
severity 295888 wishlist
tags 248061 d-i
tags 295888 d-i
merge 295888 248061
tags 292862 d-i
merge 292862 257883
thanks
--
Thomas Hood <email address hidden>

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[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

I installed a Cluster Controller and Node Controller using the 09-Oct-2009 daily build of Karmic. This bug is to request a future enhancement request to be put on the wish list. During the installation of UEC, one of the questions is the IP Address for eth0 if the network is configured manually versus DHCP. However, the installer only allows one physical Interface to be configured - regardless of the number of physical interfaces on the machine. For example: my machine has four network interfaces, but I could only configure one during the install. Not a major issues since the other interfaces can be configured after the installation is complete, which is why this is a wish list bug.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

I haven't personally confirmed this, but I strongly suspect that this is the case.

I believe the inadequate logic is in eucalyptus-udeb.finish-install, though I haven't tried to fix it yet myself.

:-Dustin

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Moving this bug over to debian-installer.

Colin, is there anything we can realistically do here in the installer to help with multi-NIC systems? This will necessarily be the case for multi-cluster CC machines where one NIC is on the CLC's subnet and the other NIC is on the NC's subnet.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This has been on the netcfg wishlist for some years now. I wouldn't hold your breath too much, and I doubt there's anything we can do as a quick hack, but it may happen some day.

[Amos Hayes (ahayes-polkaroo)]

I have run into a situation where this is more troublesome. In my case, I'm trying to deploy Ubuntu server on a diskless system using iSCSI. The storage network is isolated and only accessible on one network interface and the other interface is used for traditional network traffic and internet connectivity.

This means I have to install without internet connectivity which prevents me, for example, from specifying alternative packages to what is on the CD. And right now, that means I can't install a version of open-iscsi from proposed, and so my install will fail.

I realize this is an edge case, but as ubuntu server makes its way into more complex environments, the ability to configure multiple interfaces during install could save quite a few headaches. Particularly in catch-22 situations like mine.

As a side note, ifconfig doesn't seem present when I drop to a shell, at least not at the install stage where I need it (before choosing the install target) so I can't figure out how to bring up the second interface manually. This is the server CD, not the live CD.