From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31265 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2004 09:01:32 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Sep 2004 09:01:32 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CCwoe-0003aS-9X for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:01:32 +0000 Received: (qmail 14694 invoked by uid 89); 30 Sep 2004 09:01:31 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 21074 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2004 09:01:31 +0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:01:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <41586F16.5020409@gentoo.org> <77d71529040929120567130db8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <77d71529040929120567130db8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1396704.P7zSD7dC7T"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409301101.25968.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: removing dhcpcd from system??? X-Archives-Salt: b5f83058-5054-4041-a63b-972fcca6a92c X-Archives-Hash: deaa66d13f2a2bfbd63ead2d803179cc --nextPart1396704.P7zSD7dC7T Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:05, Dejan Nikic wrote: > I have a static DSL ISP, but I know of plenty of people that have > various provides that provide only DHCP. This might work in an > enviroment that you know what's going on, but if you are connecting to > one of these big networks who knows what goes on and what will happen > if you try to asign an IP. Also who's to say that the IP you're gona > use is not already used by another user on that network and it will > drop him/her off. Now we don't want that, or do we? ;) Many places that actually assign static IP's still use dhcp. It has a=20 number of advantages. One being that administration is centralised.=20 Another that one can change for example the name servers in the dhcp=20 config to change them on the network. I would advise anyone who=20 administers a nontrivial network to use dhcp to provide addresses. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart1396704.P7zSD7dC7T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBW8tlbKx5DBjWFdsRAjvuAJ0dqLwKrn2ea8TSIo4sKbsZJ6pZzgCgkGEW BqtCn3Duvbu9ScyIR7qhvWA= =qq83 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1396704.P7zSD7dC7T--