F8 is getting *really* sysadmin-hostile

Olivier Galibert galibert at pobox.com
Thu Nov 15 19:18:51 UTC 2007


On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:44:17PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:32:44 +0100
> Olivier Galibert <galibert at pobox.com> 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.

  OG.




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