On Nov 15, 2007 1:44 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's the point, though, unless you're in a setup where 90%+ of
the
>>>> computers change every year[1]?
>>> Because client creation is much easier if you just tell it to DHCP
>>> rather than spending time to punch in technobabble numbers each time.
>> Huh? You get the mac address how? Looks to me like you're trading
>> the need to type a simple IP address with a much larger complexity on
>> the server side, whatever you do.
>
> ifconfig gives mac addresses last i checked. One just makes a note of
> the mac addresses of their serves, attach the same ip to the mac
> address everytime, and then everything can be run on dynamic IPs.
That's not a horrible idea, but not really simpler than assigning the IP
directly - and it gets a little weird when you start copying vmware
images around in ways that make them want to make up new mac addresses.
Fair enough. Although for non vm situations, i think it's easier.
There's also a problem where you have multiple nics and need to
assign
some non-default static routes to one or more. I don't think there is a
way to do that with dhcp.
Just to be clear, I was just providing a suggestion to _one_ of the problems.
Last time I checked, I hated NetworkManager, not sure how good/bad it is in F8
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