[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug or weird ``feature''?

[Guido Trotter]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:09:18AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:

Hi!

> > This experience report is to ask a question: is this ``network-dummy''
> > something desired or just a bug in the configuration file shipped with
> > the Debian package?
> 
> It counts as a weird feature.  At first, I thought it was just a "no damage
> by default" setting, but I recently read somewhere (sorry, completely
> forgotten where) that the idea behind network-dummy is that, since Debian
> has the ability to configure all your bridges at boot time, that you should
> be using that instead of the Xen network config scripts.
> 

Yes it does... It is all documented in README.Debian, which is where things
special to the debian package are documented, and suggestions for debian usage
are made... :) Since it's a file documenting the differences between debian and
the rest of the world... I thought it would be a place people would be looking
at...

Thanks!

Guido