Bug 132479

Summary:	Network Routing configuration not consistent
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Michael Stather <kontakt>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Martin Vidner <mvidner>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 2
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Michael Stather 2005-11-05 21:17:31 UTC

Many parameters of the network configuration can be obtained through DHCP, like the DNS servers and the IP adress. It seems this is done for the gateway though, but there is no such option. I suggest to make this consistent with the other options, e.g. add an option "get from DHCP" and only get from DHCP is this is set.

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-11-07 18:15:36 UTC

As a fact, if the field is left empty and a DHCP-server was specified this route is taken from the DHCP afaik. Maby the help text should give information about that or it should be made more transparent by adding such a button.

This is not the first report about that, but I just cannot find the first one.
Martin: Please decide.

Comment 2 Michael Stather 2005-11-07 18:32:26 UTC

Yeah but all the other options have a seperate "get from DHCP" option and this one has not. IMHO this is just a usability thing which makes it intuitive for the user to switch to DHCP. Not everyone reads the explaining text because in general YaST is very easy to use and self-explanatory.

Comment 3 Martin Vidner 2005-11-08 09:42:45 UTC

I am working on a better layout.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44721 ***