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On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 15:54, Bob Johnson wrote: |
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> dhcp takes a bit to timeout if its not available , is this really necessary |
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> for the .05% of ppl that need it? |
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In my opinion, yes. This can be accomplished much less intrusively if |
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we were to just set iface_ethX=dhcp in /etc/conf.d/net. That way, only |
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devices which are actually found via hotplug will have DHCP run on |
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them. I already do this on my GameCD's (as did you, on yours) and it |
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seems to work fine, even on my multi-NIC machines. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer |
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Games/LiveCD Teams |
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