F8 is getting *really* sysadmin-hostile

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Nov 15, 2007 1:44 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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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