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Hey, im not dev or anything, and maybe shouldn't be adding more noise |
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to this, but, well, i use dhcp at school, work, coffe, home (true, i |
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could be using static ip here), and well.. all ISP here in Portugal |
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require dhcp. |
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Hell, maybe im wrong, but i think there will be a lot of complains |
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from those more inexperient users (and useless bugs added in bugzilla) |
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if you remove this from the default thing. |
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To those who like the thin tweek their systems... well, they could |
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package.mask all packages they dont use or like, couldnt they? |
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Thank you and nice hack ;) |
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:01:12 +0200, Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:05, Dejan Nikic wrote: |
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> > I have a static DSL ISP, but I know of plenty of people that have |
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> > various provides that provide only DHCP. This might work in an |
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> > enviroment that you know what's going on, but if you are connecting to |
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> > one of these big networks who knows what goes on and what will happen |
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> > if you try to asign an IP. Also who's to say that the IP you're gona |
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> > use is not already used by another user on that network and it will |
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> > drop him/her off. Now we don't want that, or do we? ;) |
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> Many places that actually assign static IP's still use dhcp. It has a |
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> number of advantages. One being that administration is centralised. |
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> Another that one can change for example the name servers in the dhcp |
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> config to change them on the network. I would advise anyone who |
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> administers a nontrivial network to use dhcp to provide addresses. |
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> Paul de Vrieze |
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> Gentoo Developer |
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> Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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> Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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