On Monday 10 December 2007, Geert Stappers wrote: > When a computer has more then two network interface cards, > it is very likely that static[1] configuration is wanted.
This is absolute nonsense, for example in the following, fairly common situation: - 1 on-board wired Ethernet NIC - 1 Firewire NIC - 1 wireless NIC We already have the option for static configuration. It's up to the user to select it. > > It would however mean either moving dhclient from netcfg to ethdetect > > or moving interface selection (for the static configuration case) from > > ethdetect to netcfg. > > That will lock-out static configuration. No, it would not. Or at least, it would of course have to be implemented in such a way that it does not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
