Basic network configuration recovery tool

[paul_marwick]

@davidep

@paul_marwick

something that would enable basic configuration to be done from the local console

The goal is to make Server Manager reachable again without knowing the right commands. A possible solution:

• Say in /etc/motd that network-recovery is the command for you if you’re in trouble with the network connection
• Implement the network-recovery command that asks for a temporary IP, netmask, gateway, dns
  • It clears up firewall and IP configuration on all ethernet cards
  • It creates a bridge brdef with all ethernet cards
  • It applies the temporary IP configuration.
  • By default it runs signal-event interface-update && signal-event firewall-adjust on exit. We could allow to quit the tool by keeping the temporary configuration

What do you think?

Something like that would have saved me a lot of time today. Could be very useful indeed.