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On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:12 AM, "Anne Gentle" <anne at openstack.org<mailto:anne at openstack.org>> wrote:




On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Phil Hopkins <phil.hopkins at rackspace.com<mailto:phil.hopkins at rackspace.com>> wrote:
If one cannot set up networking one doesn't need to be installing Openstack, My $0.02


Phil, I can't have us thinking this way yet... everyone takes a meandering path to OpenStack and may not have all the (pick your distro) networking knowledge we'd like. We have to be advocates for our users no matter where they started their journey. I won't ever be persuaded by this line of thinking.

Anne i was sending from My phone and was being cryptic. Sorry if my intent was misunderstood. I would never mean that we shouldn't help folks that are new to OpenStack. However we need to gently point the to resources whereby they can learn rather than repeating those resources in our docs.

We all were new to this at one point and it is important to remember that. So that said we help them on the path to learning about OpenStack.

Phil

That said, Matt's arguments are sound for maintenance purposes. We heavily rely on MySQL documentation for all but the very basics. Can we draw a similar line here and refer to the distro's documentation for networking?

Anne



Phil
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> On Mar 22, 2014, at 5:45 PM, "Matt Kassawara" <mkassawara at gmail.com<mailto:mkassawara at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> While updating the networking section of the basic OS configuration chapter in the installation guide, I found my step-by-step instructions quickly making the source file rather large and complex with plenty of "os" conditionals. Do we really need to provide step-by-step instructions for basic OS configuration including network interfaces, name resolution, etc? I would much rather include more generic steps and let users reference their distribution's documentation for specific instructions.
>
> For example:
>
> Use this...
>
> Compute node
>
> 1) Configure the network interfaces:
>   a) Management (eth0)
>
>   IP address: 10.0.0.31
>   Netmask: 255.255.255.0
>   Gateway: 10.0.0.1
>
>   b) External (eth1) ...
>
> Instead of this...
>
> Compute node
>
> 1) Configure the management network interface:
>   a) Edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file to include the following:
>
> ONBOOT="yes"
> NM_CONTROLLED="no"
> BOOTPROTO="static"
> IPADDR="10.0.0.31"
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> BROADCAST="10.0.0.255"
> GATEWAY="10.0.0.1"
>
> 2) Configure the external network interface:
>   b) Edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file ...
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