[Bug 1684039] Re: iBFT network configuration does not correctly populate PROTO=dhcp in /run/net-*.conf which breaks cloud-init

[Trent Lloyd]

Submitted upstream to Debian, maintainer promptly replied and plans to
fix upstream also.

Christian suggested a slightly different patch not to rely on busybox
for 'tr' and use a case statement instead (as it's a Recommends);  He
plans to push that update through to stretch (stable) also.

He said he plans to upload that fix rapidly so I'll wait for that so we
can sync the same fix in.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #866213
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866213

** Also affects: open-iscsi (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866213
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  iBFT network configuration does not correctly populate PROTO=dhcp in
  /run/net-*.conf which breaks cloud-init

Status in open-iscsi package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in open-iscsi source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in open-iscsi source package in Yakkety:
  New
Status in open-iscsi source package in Zesty:
  New
Status in open-iscsi source package in Artful:
  New
Status in open-iscsi package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  When booting with iBFT, the network configuration is performed by
  open-iscsi as part of initramfs.local-top instead of by klibc-
  ipconfig.  This includes populating /run/net-*.conf which is consumed
  among other things, by cloud-init.

  Currently no attempt to determine PROTO is made, and PROTO=none is
  hard coded into the file which cloud-init does not recognise and
  crashes out.

  Further to this, open-iscsi in the current version (xenial through
  zesty) does not correctly parse the iBFT origin into the boot protocol
  in "iscsistart -f" and always returns "STATIC".  This is fixed
  upstream.

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