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On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 05:22, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> The firewire network interface does not support DHCP, or at least, dhcpcd |
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> refuses to work on 1394 interfaces (check the system log). So what we are |
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> doing at the moment (in cases of firewire-enabled systems) is effectively nothing. |
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I understand this. I also think that since the interface can't be |
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auto-configured anyway, that we should blacklist it to keep the module |
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from loading. We can send a message to -doc informing them of this so |
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they can add a "if you use firewire networking" to the handbook. |
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> We should possibly do some ifconfig parsing and only run dhcpcd on ethernet |
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> style devices. |
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I think the documentation route is probably the cleanest. |
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Objections? |
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