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From: "José Fernandes" <josemataf@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: removing dhcpcd from system???
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:21:52
Message-Id: 8022edff04093005217eb25496@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: removing dhcpcd from system??? by Paul de Vrieze
1 Hey, im not dev or anything, and maybe shouldn't be adding more noise
2 to this, but, well, i use dhcp at school, work, coffe, home (true, i
3 could be using static ip here), and well.. all ISP here in Portugal
4 require dhcp.
5
6 Hell, maybe im wrong, but i think there will be a lot of complains
7 from those more inexperient users (and useless bugs added in bugzilla)
8 if you remove this from the default thing.
9
10 To those who like the thin tweek their systems... well, they could
11 package.mask all packages they dont use or like, couldnt they?
12
13 Thank you and nice hack ;)
14
15 On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:01:12 +0200, Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote:
16 >
17 >
18 > On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:05, Dejan Nikic wrote:
19 > > I have a static DSL ISP, but I know of plenty of people that have
20 > > various provides that provide only DHCP. This might work in an
21 > > enviroment that you know what's going on, but if you are connecting to
22 > > one of these big networks who knows what goes on and what will happen
23 > > if you try to asign an IP. Also who's to say that the IP you're gona
24 > > use is not already used by another user on that network and it will
25 > > drop him/her off. Now we don't want that, or do we? ;)
26 >
27 > Many places that actually assign static IP's still use dhcp. It has a
28 > number of advantages. One being that administration is centralised.
29 > Another that one can change for example the name servers in the dhcp
30 > config to change them on the network. I would advise anyone who
31 > administers a nontrivial network to use dhcp to provide addresses.
32 >
33 >
34 >
35 > Paul
36 >
37 > --
38 > Paul de Vrieze
39 > Gentoo Developer
40 > Mail: pauldv@g.o
41 > Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
42 >
43 >
44 >
45 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: removing dhcpcd from system??? Ioannis Aslanidis <aslanidis@×××××.com>