On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:04, Todd Lyons wrote: > -----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.
Interesting that it says it works like NetBios.... that's the first thing I always turn off Or rather don't ever turn on in a mixed windows environment... because it doesn't work all that well... Unless you are using Novel.... James
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