-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lyvim Xaphir wrote on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:52:04PM -0800 : > > Hmmmmm....very interesting indeed. Since dhcp was a concept in and of > itself to ease configuration problems, and then zeroconf is using dhcp > to ease configuration problems, which is what *zeroconf itself* is > supposed to be contributing. In the case of no dhcp or dns, what the > hell happens? Not everybody is connected to a
Not quite. zeroconf is supposed to provide networking by using multicast dns (which tmdns provides). It uses negotiation with other zeroconf hosts to find an ip address in 169.254.0.0/16. It's more like a samba broadcast than anything else. To anybody who hasn't done it yet, go look at http://www.zeroconf.org and look through their technical documents. It really is quite nice. I think the problem that cooker people are seeing is that it's installing dh-client now instead of dhcpcd and so some of the options that were normally set in /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* are not quite working the same as they used to. - -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21pre4-10mdk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+X7Ktlp7v05cW2woRAq08AJ9wbBnHto25UF22Fj0Bo319Oe+qDQCgmPMs QWktwln6n34LEGIpxVGaXBg= =Z0P/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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