Console-conf and ip address

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 09:12:19PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 07:37:41PM +0100, Victor Palau wrote:
> > So I guess is not possible to display the ip on the login console prompt?
> 
> This is possible.
> 
> I uploaded a new ubuntu-core-config package that will show the IP on
> tty1 before the login prompt. Should be in the next edge image.

Just to clarify, this is a very simple change I pushed, all the points
that Steve raised are valid. The general case is hard. I still hope
this change is useful.

Cheers,
 Michael


> > On 23 Sep 2016 18:34, "Oliver Grawert" <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > hi,
> > > On Sa, 2016-09-24 at 01:28 +0800, Shuduo Sang wrote:
> > > I use to use "nmap -sn 192.168.0.1/24" to find the IP address of my
> > > > Pi box since it always change with my router after reflash new image.
> > > >
> > > this is sadly one of the drawbacks of the new netplan tool ...
> > > it sends the machine ID alongside with the MAC address to the dhcp
> > > server when obtaining the IP for the first time ... since on a freshly
> > > flashed board this ID is newly generated it kind of forcefully changes
> > > the IP with every re-flash.
> > >
> > > ciao
> > >         oli
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