Bug 233871

Summary:	network interface for dsl unnecessarily must have an address (or dhcp)
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Georg Müller <georgmueller>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Michal Zugec <mzugec>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Georg Müller 2007-01-11 23:20:57 UTC

For DSL, it is sufficient to have an interface that is "up". DSL (PPPoE) works without an address assigned to the interface.

There is no possibility to configure a network card with YaST to go just "up" - (like "ip link set eth0 up" or "ifconfig eth0 up"). I have to assign it an address or configure it as dhcp.

It would be nice to avoid this in the configuration dialog or provide the possibility to bring a nic just up without configuration in the network card dialog.

Comment 1 Michal Zugec 2007-04-26 14:40:28 UTC

In 10.3 we have new option "No IP Address" used mostly for Binding Devices.