From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 11: 1:15 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 69F0337B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:01:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 20550 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2001 18:10:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2001 18:10:29 -0000 Message-ID: <3B4B420C.1947DABE@iowna.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:57:32 -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 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <200107100332.UAA13663@usr01.primenet.com> <3B4B0856.A67F02FD@iowna.com> <3B4B3866.FBFF9A65@mindspring.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 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. > > FYI: The networking bootstrap process I described above > is derived from the process used by Windows 98 and above, > as it comes configured by default on systems with integral > network cards. Personally, I don't consider win98 a reference point by which to model OS design. When you say win98 and above do you include the NT line (win2k)? With the _current_ IPv4 network, I don't see any good reason for servers to use DHCP, and FreeBSD is primarily a server OS, so why should it default to DHCP? > The "link.local" draft RFC for doing the > IPv4 stateless autoconfiguration was coauthored by a > Microsoft employee. I'm not familiar with the standards you reference above, what's the RFC#? > See the IETF "ZEROCONF" working group for more details: > this stuff is going to be part of the standards soon. Possibly. But then again, IPv6 will change a number of the rules as we know them. Which will be adopted and come into widespread use first is a matter for fortune tellers. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message