From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 8 22:12:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11676 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:12:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11671 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:12:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA03128; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 01:12:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Steve Kargl cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Feb 1999 22:03:44 PST." <199902090603.WAA65186@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 01:12:37 -0500 Message-ID: <3124.918540757@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Kargl wrote in message ID <199902090603.WAA65186@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>: > I do live in a dhcp world, but our net admins appreciate > the fact my machines are up 7/24 and serve my research group, > so they have given me a fixed ip. That argument won't work with Media-One, Roadrunner, RCN, etc who just simply *DO* *NOT* *SUPPORT* *STATIC* *IP* *ASSIGNMENTS*. How can we make this any clearer to you? Its fine to say `I don't want to see DHCP in the base system' when you have the choice of getting a static IP. A lot of the emerging high-speed access providers aren't giving you that option. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message