On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio <spide...@gmail.com>wrote:
> >Complementing James comment, when I messed with Gentoo on a notebook I > >also tried the confusing and troublesome way: configuring wi-fi to > >connect at boot time. It was REALLY a challenge, maintaining a > >realistic configuration file, which would let you boot with network up > >equally while home and while at work. At the end of the day, I just > >regressed to no boot configuration and went with wicd or > >NetworkManager. > >When I came back to configuring my desktop, it felt strange to run > >dhcp at boot time, I even tried migrating a wired box to > >NetworkManager, but ended with a static config nevertheless. > > I'm curious, why is running DHCP at boot time not recommended? Before running any sort of network manager I ran dhcp on boot (I'll admit it, it was awkward when I wasn't wired in, since I would have to wait for dhcp to time out). It wasn't too terrible since I only had about 3 or 4 wireless networks I could possibly connect to. Between the Gentoo Handbook and Google I didn't have a terrible time setting it up; heck, I didn't even know there was a better way of managing wireless networks!
