Am I missing something or does it learn?

[johnsonx42]

well, whatever method is chosen to implement the test, the result should be a warning box with a "yes, I understand why the test failed, please don't bother me about it" option. advanced users can come up with all sorts of interesting configurations that don't meet the pre-planned wizards and tests.

regarding the usage of the terms "Bridge Mode" and "Router Mode", yeah, you're right, it's something of a misnomer. But it's convenient short-hand to describe the simple 2-interface UT that is most often discussed here. Multi-interface UT's do almost always have both routed and bridged interfaces, but those are also much harder to plug in backwards without knowing it - a lot more breaks right away when you do that. And you have to admit, a 2-interface UT with the interfaces bridged behaves very differently than a 2-interface UT with routing between the interfaces. Finally, the UT documentation, such as it is, makes clear that "Bridge" and "Router" are the two basic deployment methods (excluding the deprecated Re-Router installation): http://wiki.untangle.com/index.php/Introduction

[sky-knight]

Technically, re-router was just bridge mode. It just used arp magic to simulate the second interface.

I wonder if the arp caches can be interface specific in some way. If they could, all we need to do is figure out which interface has the mac address of the default gateway IP. Once we know which interface got that mac, we can say which should be external in a two interface situation.

So if this test fails where to put the notification? Does the test fire at the end of the wizard? or does it run on predefined intervals and throw an error after the fact?

Then we need a way to turn it off, because I don't like extra popups during install. I don't even like the install wizard that asks you a pile of questions to figure out what trials to install. I just want to install what I know my client needs or what I know I've sold them with minimal fuss.

However, I also admit that I'm not a typical user. And this product can't be designed based on my experience level. Not and have it complete it's mission.

[johnsonx42]

I think mrunkel's pseudo-code example in the bugzilla filing does something like what you suggest.