xilinx proxy on or off by default

[schelleg]

Some of you have run into this, but in the milan release, I removed the xilinx proxy environment variables. Implications of this:

1. Xilinx network Zybo users have to manually add http proxy environment variables to use pip install, apt-get, or any other network operation.
2. Non-Xilinx network users don't have to do anything to use Zybo networking.

Any discussion on this? We have several options to support both user groups, but the non-default user group will have to change settings.

[yunqu]

My suggestion is to add that script back into the scripts folder. We can mention this in the Q&A section of our documents, so that different groups of users can choose to use it or not.

[schelleg]

I wondered about having the xilinx_proxy.sh script in there - but do we want the world to know Xilinx internal proxy IP addresses? ... not sure if that is a security risk.

Remember too that anyone plugging PYNQ into a corporate network will have to manually add their own http_proxy variables - this is known to RPi communities.

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Yun Rock Qu notifications@github.com wrote:

My suggestion is to add that script back into the scripts folder. We can mention this in the Q&A section of our documents, so that different groups of users can choose to use it or not.

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Graham

[cathalmccabe]

I thinking adding instructions to the FAQ or other docs would be better than adding a script. We can send separate instructions to Xilinx users or they can use at home.

[schelleg]

Moving to PYNQ board and external Xilinx user focus. I'll close now and we'll help Xilinx employees on case by case basis