F8 is getting *really* sysadmin-hostile

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 19:39:53 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:04:58 -0600
> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> That's not what the OP was talking about.  Please stop taking every
> posting of "dhcp would be good for this case" as "DO AWAY WITH ALL
> STATIC IPS!!!"

I thought this thread was about static IPs not working at all in certain 
install scenarios - and someone else was suggesting the right solution 
was "don't use static IP's".

> But also realize that DHCP can be used as an automated method of
> applying a static IP to a host.

I'd call that shifting the work to someone else, not actually automating it.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com






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