Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org> writes: > Quoting Philippe Villiers (kissif...@gmail.com): > >> I'm using Mac failovers on a virtual machine where i'm trying to >> install Debian Squeze. >> The problem is when I try to specify my IP adress and such, I have a >> gateway unreachable error. >> >> In fact I would like tu use the following configuration: >> Ip address of the virtual machine is named IPVM, the gateway is IPGT >> So the machine would have the following parameters: >> IP address: IPVM >> Broadcast address: IPVM >> Netmask: 255.255.25.255 >> Gateway: IPGT >> >> A /etc/network/interfaces would look like this: >> >> auto eth0 >> iface eth0 inet static >> address IPVM >> netmask 255.255.255.255 >> broadcast IPVM >> post-up route add IPGT dev eth0 >> post-up route add default gw IPGT >> post-down route del IPGT dev eth0 >> post-down route del default gw IPGT >> >> But I can't configure my network like this using the installer. > > Is this really something we want in the installer? I'm not entirely > convinced that each and every specific setup needs to be configurable > from scratch in D-I.
I also feel like such a specialized network setup doesn't belong into the installer dialogs. The manual method should stay open, though. Not that doing a "Mac failover" would be useful when running the installer. -- Thanks, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
