On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 03:16:28PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On 7 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > > On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 15:43, Michael Sternberg wrote: > > > > > > Is it advisable in case of such failure to start computer with a random > > > static IP and continue to look for DHCP server in background ? > > > This way the boot process will be at least continued.. > > > > Choosing addresses at random is verbotten and will get your BOfH to come > > chase you around the office with a big LART. You already have a local > > loopback address (127.0.0.1) it should be enough provided you have a > > /etc/hosts file that maps that to your machine name. > > So you think that when dhcpcd fails the system (the script running it) > should rewrite /etc/hosts to map the host name to 127.0.0.1 ? Is this done > anywhere? > > What is 169.254.0.0/16 ?
I believe that keeping the interface down is the best option - I only wish it kept trying... Dan. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
