Default network configuration during installation, NetworkManager and the /etc/sysconfig/network-script's

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 22:57:06 UTC 2008


David Cantrell wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:45:44PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:39:31PM -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:18:55PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>>>> I think it is a perfectly reasonable default to have DHCP enabled by 
>>>> default for all network interfaces, whether NetworkManager is used or 
>>>> not.
>>> Seriously?
>> Yes, why not?
> 
> Right away I can think of the user with 185 network interfaces complaining
> about boot up taking too long because he's having to wait for each one to time
> out.

Assume that only the ones that he wants to use are connected.  And that 
he wants to do the initial install via NFS.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list