Feature changed by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #309160, revision 9 Title: checkbox to enable IPX protocol - openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation + openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by (a_jaeger) + reject date: 2010-10-06 16:04:23 + reject reason: not done. Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Michal Zugec (mzugec) Developer: (Novell) Description: Please along the "Enable IPv6" checkbox add another checkbox to enable IPX. See bugzilla enhancement: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586119 Discussion: #1: Ilya Chernykh (ansus) (2010-03-10 12:44:36) The IPX protocol is enabled on interface eth0, for example, by the following command: ipx_interface add eth0 EtherII This should be binded to the checkbox. #2: Michal Zugec (mzugec) (2010-03-10 13:56:54) This should be implemented in sysconfig first. Marius, what's your comment? #3: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2010-03-10 15:13:33) My question here is whether IPX is popular enough that it makes sense to enable it in the GUI. #4: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi) (2010-03-10 21:02:38) (reply to #3) I agree with you. IPX exposes us to charges of "Novellization" by people with nothing better to do (politics) and the simple fact is that IPv6 I can see as handy (for some) but PIX is an even smaller audience... we did simplify the installer to make things simpler on the user  (usability), adding options back in(especially like this one) is not the way to go. So, given the usability factor and the political vibe this feature would give, I am inclined to reject. an IPX user is fully qualified to turn this on post-install. Any comments on this analysis before i (R) ? #5: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi) (2010-03-10 21:03:12) s/PIX/IPX/ #6: Milisav Radmanic (radmanic) (2010-03-11 12:02:18) I'd say the audience for this feature tends to be very small and I don't expect that the IPX protocol will be used by a growing number of people in future. If we do this feature at all, an ifplug script should be sufficient, but a general sysconfig support is less recommended. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309160