F8 is getting *really* sysadmin-hostile

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 19:44:31 UTC 2007


Arthur Pemberton wrote:

>>>
>>>> What's the point, though, unless you're in a setup where 90%+ of the
>>>> computers change every year[1]?
>>> Because client creation is much easier if you just tell it to DHCP
>>> rather than spending time to punch in technobabble numbers each time.
>> Huh?  You get the mac address how?  Looks to me like you're trading
>> the need to type a simple IP address with a much larger complexity on
>> the server side, whatever you do.
> 
> 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 - and it gets a little weird when you start copying vmware 
images around in ways that make them want to make up new mac addresses.

There's also a problem where you have multiple nics and need to assign 
some non-default static routes to one or more.  I don't think there is a 
way to do that with dhcp.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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