F8 is getting *really* sysadmin-hostile

[Les Mikesell]

Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thursday 15 November 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> 
>>> ifconfig gives mac addresses last i checked. One just makes a note of
>>> the mac addresses of their serves, attach the same ip to the mac
>>> address everytime, and then everything can be run on dynamic IPs.
>> That's not a horrible idea, but not really simpler than assigning the IP
>> directly
> 
> It's not only the IP.  There are DNS servers, gateways, WINS servers, NTP 
> servers and whatnot that can be conveniently managed in one place on the DHCP 
> server.

And routes, which DHCP can't handle, other than the default.

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   Les Mikesell
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