[Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Networking Interface Config?

[Nick Daly]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
> [Nick Daly]
>> fix /etc/network/interface
>>
>>     allow-hotplug eth0
>>     iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> Why 'allow-hotplug' and not 'auto'?  'allow-hotplug' is obsolete, as
> far as I know, and require network-manager to be running.  I did not
> plan to use network-manager, but only ifupdown.  Should we use
> network-manager?

If auto is that much simpler, let's just go with that.

> The network setup is done at first boot in
> freedombox-setup/first-run.d/05_network, and there I was told by
> jsullevan to use eth1, not eth0, on the dreamplug.  What is correct?

The issue isn't that eth0/eth1 are mislabeled on the DreamPlug, but
that they're entirely missing on the RaspberryPi.  In my built images,
/etc/network/interfaces has these contents:

: auto lo
: iface lo inet loopback

And that's it.  eth0 is missing from my built RPi images.  If other
folks have different results and I need to pull changes into my
fbx-setup fork, that's fine, but either way that needs to be corrected
before we call this a release.

Nick