On Nov 15, 2007 1:18 PM, Olivier Galibert <galibert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:44:17PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:32:44 +0100 > > Olivier Galibert <galibert@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
