From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 6:54:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B4D937B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:54:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 18789 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2001 14:04:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2001 14:04:10 -0000 Message-ID: <3B4B0856.A67F02FD@iowna.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:51:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <200107100332.UAA13663@usr01.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > If you pick "default installation" or "full installation", it > _should_ try to be smart; if you pick "custom installation", > you chould have to babysit it like you do today. > > 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. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message