Bug 21273

Summary: PLIP Configuration in sysinstall is broken/confusing
Product: Base System Reporter: bguillory <bguillory>
Component: miscAssignee: Murray Stokely <murray>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.1-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description bguillory 2000-09-14 22:00:00 UTC 
When I tried to setup the lp0 driver in sysinstall I had a lot of
difficulty.  The problem is that sysinstall does not pass the ip
address of the remote machine to ifconfig unless you fill out the
"Extra options to ifconfig" field.  I did not find documentation
that this was required.  Perhaps this is a "feature" and it just
needs to be documented.

Fix: 

include the remote hosts ip address in the "extra options to ifconfig".
How-To-Repeat: try to install over network with the lp0 driver
Comment 1 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-31 22:17:49 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

I agree that we should update the documentation to make this more 
apparent.  I will look into this.  Hopefully with help from the originator.
Comment 2 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-31 22:17:49 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->murray

I'll look at this.
Comment 3 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-31 22:19:34 UTC 
  I agree that this is confusing and I remember spending some time
figuring out what I needed to pass to ifconfig the first time that I
setup FreeBSD through PLIP.  Do you have some suggested text to add to
one of the help screens?  Can you please supply a diff or something of
what exactly we should add to make it easier?

     Thanks,
     - Murray
Comment 4 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-12-10 10:35:07 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->analyzed

I've added text to the "help" line for the network configuration menu. 
Sorry this took so long to resolve.
Comment 5 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-12-20 11:10:01 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: analyzed->closed

A fix has been added to -STABLE.  This change will be present in the 
upcoming FreeBSD 4.5.  Thanks for your problem report!  Sorry again 
that this took so long, I promise future problem reports won't take so 
long to resolve! ;)