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On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 17:08, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> Is there a reason why we're only starting DHCP on one ethX device? On |
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> many systems, the FireWire is getting detected before the NIC, which is |
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> loading eth1394 as eth0. We either need FireWire loading last, or to |
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> set the system up to do DHCP on more than one interface. I *definitely* |
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> prefer the latter, as it is much more flexible. |
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Since we have removed it from genkernel, and are going to blacklist it, |
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I think that we are good on the firewire nic front. |
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I really do not want to enable DHCP for each interface. Not only is the |
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timeout something not fun to sit through, but the last thing we need is |
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legions of users with multiple nics complaining about how they can't get |
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on the net ;) Let's keep it simple and add something in the docs about |
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how to enable other interfaces. |
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Cheers, |
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John Davis |
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