From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 03:05:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249DC106566C for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 03:05:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2FED8FC15 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 03:05:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh20 with SMTP id 20so3258172gyh.13 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 20:05:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=J8kKIqPTTd4pgPr/gOY8PDRH/CCSB5L4mqsXljoOvdA=; b=CDO7/7wbVu/33MgpD/yXCK2+AS2jPYxmsTXmtneYe3r2W3NBADF5ZlVJDBOS8AePSq UmVpkVYWlaRPcFVM7y2B3WDbqMDOf3YsTVr0KKK+cEhfHpIWXHtv6cRaJf4FJsQ6Ai6O +P3A0E7C742UFYikfWyxFvmx0WUZYDwBlD5BQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=KUrHmlrPKOd6YvskBb4tb1loh2YBkBMFFrb5n7JH01b7Ci6NaJEZv9WSfO+/JVOnXC HE17YM2gYO4lqtv+9HavKjEt27klGTnQEeTPlCJ6mU9g4w43fiVJuQUyJ3WKlQ5+Z+sV 2jEHTQxXrv+uX+aiSdKJbIIt/zLdEZ6Od+Vn4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.183.19 with SMTP id ce19mr6448656ibb.35.1274842060122; Tue, 25 May 2010 19:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.161.135 with HTTP; Tue, 25 May 2010 19:47:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1274807667.6175.101.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1274807667.6175.101.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 10:47:40 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: BafsXbhXWyAOqzhGMuQAWRMgTEw Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Devin Teske Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 26 May 2010 03:15:48 +0000 Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC Selection Menu X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 03:05:32 -0000 On 26 May 2010 01:14, Devin Teske wrote: > Solution: Sysinstall could "bold" the NIC entry in the selection menu if > (and only-if) [a] it is able to properly probe the status of said NIC > and [b] said status indicates that a cable is plugged into the > interface. Reporting/updating link status isn't a bad idea. Doing it through bold is. There's no guarantee that the terminal you're currently using will have support for bold characters or the current font in use will make bold even remotely distinguishable. Having some textual "link up", or a link status column, that may work. But do all devices reliably report link status? Having a sysinstall option to list the current NICs and their IP/IPv6 addresses may also help. The user could then "down" an interface. 2c, (I can't work on code for another few weeks, sorry, so this is 2c of non-code-commentary.) Adrian