Bug 144564

Summary:	Have a way to migrate a old nic to a new nic.
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Joe Harmon <jharmon>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Michal Zugec <mzugec>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Joe Harmon 2006-01-20 23:23:08 UTC

I would like to see an enhancement in the nic handling..

If a nic is replaced you don't have any network anymore because the
configuration is specific to the mac address..

In yast you still see the old nic (because the file is there)

In the old days ... which you can still achiece by copying the ifcfg-eth
mac to ifcfg-eth0 this wouldn't happen..

I know there could be a reason for this behaviour... like docking stations
with own nic cards etc...

But why not ask the user if a new nic is detected if he wants to configure
this new nic, copy the config from an other nic, or move the config of the
old nic to the new nic?

Comment 1 Andreas Kleen 2006-01-21 02:14:00 UTC

This bites me regularly too.  Would be nice to fix it in some way.

Comment 2 Martin Vidner 2006-08-28 11:52:32 UTC

Reassigning to the new maintainer of yast2-network.

Comment 3 Michal Zugec 2006-08-30 06:47:13 UTC

move to later

Comment 4 Michal Zugec 2008-05-23 08:12:39 UTC

This is already fixed (by sysconfig + YaST) in 11.0. Since we have network devicename based configurations and devicename editor in YaST, it works fine ;-)