Re: Network anomalies since F8 install

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max bianco:
>>> What besides zero conf will do it?

Tim:
>> In Fedora's case, it's usually called Avahi.

Ric Moore:
> huh, I had thought ZeroConf died and blew away way back in the Caldera
> days. It was a good idea, but was cussed widely at the time. Ric 

I would have thought that Caldera lived and died before the name
"ZeroConf" got applied to link-local addresses, but I can't be sure. 

There are benefits in being able to create ad-hoc networks, that sort
themselves out completely (e.g. home LANs, without any servers).  And
there are benefits to not having that system, at all.

It's certainly better, the Linux way, that it's a separate service that
you can manage how you like.  As opposed to how I saw it operating on
Windows, where if you weren't configured with a static address, or a
DHCP server didn't give you an address, the machine gave itself an
address without any option to avoid it.  People plugged in, got some
address, and thought networking should work, and couldn't work out why
it didn't (they'd be on a different subnet than the rest).  Whereas if
they got an error message about not having an address, they'd have
immediately started fault-finding in the right place.

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