[Bug 547327] New: Refine ethernet bridge creation in yast2
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547327 Summary: Refine ethernet bridge creation in yast2 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Milestone 8 Platform: x86 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: casualprogrammer@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 SUSE/3.5.3-1.3 Firefox/3.5.3 Setting up a network bridge is somewhat clumsy in Linux, yast2 does a good job in guifying the process. I think it can still be improved. As it is, in yast2 lan one can see a list of NICs in the overview tab, help doesn't really help, so by trying add, one finds that a Network Bridge can be added, also NICs selected to participate get reset (including autorization data for wlan) Alas the rest is up to the user, who has to dig around the Internet for more or less questionable information to finally meet the goal, somehow. My suggestion is to let yast2 perform _all_ necessary steps for ease of use and absence of confusion. It's only really setting the ip and netmask of the participating NICs to 0.0.0.0/255.255.255.255, that's pretty much it. A Description of the complete process should be presented in the help window. A good example of user friendlyness is the much despised Windows, one just highlights all participating NICs (holding down CTL) and, in the context menu (right click) selects bridge connections, thats it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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