F8 is getting *really* sysadmin-hostile

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 20:01:57 UTC 2007


Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thursday 15 November 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Ville Skyttä wrote:
>>> It's not only the IP.  There are DNS servers, gateways, WINS servers, NTP
>>> servers and whatnot that can be conveniently managed in one place on the
>>> DHCP server.
>> And routes, which DHCP can't handle, other than the default.
> 
> I'm not sure if I parse the above sentence correctly, but isn't that what the 
> static-routes DHCP option is for (man dhcp-options)?  I don't use it 
> currently, but IIRC I did in the past.

And in man dhcp-options you find:
  "...this option is virtually useless, and is not implemented by any
   of the popular DHCP clients, for example the Microsoft DHCP client."

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    Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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