F8 is getting *really* sysadmin-hostile

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 20:35:24 UTC 2007


Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le vendredi 16 novembre 2007 à 14:01 -0600, Les Mikesell a écrit :
> 
>> And in man dhcp-options you find:
>>   "...this option is virtually useless, and is not implemented by any
>>    of the popular DHCP clients, for example the Microsoft DHCP client."
> 
> /me wonders how the Microsoft DHCP client is going to help you set up a
> Linux system in any case.

DHCP is a protocol, not something OS related.  If clients don't observe 
it, serving it doesn't make much sense.  And there's a reason they don't 
- the option does not permit a subnet mask.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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