Scalix Installer network Check requires a gateway....

[les]

Hi,

First time i have come across this, thought i would share and ask why...

The network check in the scalix 10 installer will fail with an error like "could not determine network interface" if you don't have a gateway set.

this is the first time i have installed on a machine, stand alone, without internet access. Thus i only had eth0, but didn't define a gateway.

even though i had dns resolving locally and a correctly setup hosts file the network check still failed.

It wasn't until i faked the gateway address (made it the same as eth0) that the installer went through fine.

So...you must have a gateway address defined to install scalix.

My question is why?

Also, can the installer network error output be a bit more descriptive? Perhaps a simple "no gateway defined on network" would allow you to fix the problem in 30 seconds....

TIA

[dkelly]

We need to find the gateway to determine the default network device. It's not common to have a mail server that doesn't have network access to other machines so we build in the check.

Cheers

Dave

[les]

We need to find the gateway to determine the default network device. It's not common to have a mail server that doesn't have network access to other machines so we build in the check.

Cheers

Dave

hmmm....so you use the gateway to ascertain what the network lan address should be, then assign say eth0 to be the default if it matches, or eth1 etc.

That's a reasonable test, and you're right, its rare that this would happen.

p.s. perhaps the network check could be a bit more descriptive in its output, even the audit log doesn't show any detail of the failed test.