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On 03/22/2014 11:45 PM, Matt Kassawara 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) ...

I agree, let's be more generic. We still might need to add one or two
sentences per distro overall - like saying do not use NetworkManager on
Fedora - but that's overall and not specific to each single step.


Andreas
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