Problem setting up wired networking

[Jerry Amundson]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 17:18 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
>> Point taken. However, I have been setting hostnames via DHCP for years
>> (both Fedora and CentOS on over 300 machines), and have never had anything
>> break because of it (not one single breakage of any kind).
>
> While on the other hand, I would constantly have X break, no new windows
> could launch, audio break, not able to re-connect to the daemon,

Maybe, on a running system, where a DHCP renew happens to change the
hostname for some unearthly reason. In other words, not a likely use
case.
I love NetworkMangler. Really, I do. What? :-)

jerry

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