On 8 Feb, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> These should be left has ports. > > Can't really get away with that anymore - too many people require > DHCP for very basic bootstrapping.
To insert some reality into this discussion, a quick survey at the office shows: Platform Has DHCP -------------------------------- Irix 6.5 Yes Solaris 2.5.1 No HP/UX 10.20 Yes Linux (RH 5.x) Yes AIX 4.2 Yes BSD/OS 4.0 Yes FreeBSD 2.X, 3.X No A "yes" means "ships with the base OS." I'll also note that the ASUS motherboards I use in our servers have BOOTP in the BIOS to support net booting via the onboard Intel Pro/100 interfaces. It's time to get out of the stone age, folks. --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
