No ethernet autoconfiguration during installation

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:29:54AM -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> I'm not sure what the intended behaviour is for the ethernet interface.
> 
> But my opinion (if anyone cares) is that the Edubuntu box is a server.
> 
> As a server, other machines are going to be connecting to it for various
> things.
> 
> And because of that, the Edubuntu machine should NOT have a dynamically
> assigned address.  It should be statically configured, so that it never
> changes.

My ideal configuration would be for the server to have two network
interfaces, one of which (the outside) could be dynamically assigned.  This
will take some work to implement in the installer, though, and will be on
the agenda for the next release.

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 - mdz