Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:16:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <200107110216.f6B2GO102444@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:51:18 EDT." <3B4B0856.A67F02FD@iowna.com>
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> > In the "default" case, it should attempt to obtain a DHCP lease,
> > and, failing that, ask the user to give it settings, or let
> > them do IPv4 stateless autoconfiguration. Ad Hoc networking
> > should always "just work".
>
> If anyone is taking a vote, I disagree. I do not want any system
> ever assuming anything about my network. Even Win checks with the
> user before enabling DHCP.
Er, you *are* kidding, right? All modern Windows versions will try to
get a lease long before the user has any say in the matter. So does OS X.
--
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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