F8 is getting *really* sysadmin-hostile

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:15:37, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Le jeudi 15 novembre 2007 � 13:04 -0600, Les Mikesell a �crit :
> > 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.
> >
> > What good are clients without servers?  And what are you supposed to do
> > with all of the server-side software that comes with fedora if you don't
> > have a static IP?
> 
> Any decent dhcp server will let you assign static ips to specific
> systems, including servers. There is no reason to hardcode the ip on the
> system itself.

Just to be pedantic, how does the machine running the dhcp server software
get an ip address if you do not hard code it? :-)

Regards,

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