Horms wrote:
> Lars Marowsky-Bree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 2006-08-10T14:27:20, Dejan Muhamedagic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Though I'd suspect that majority of HB based clusters run on
>>> Linux, I didn't find IPaddr2 very popular (at least judging by
>>> the lists).
>> Most of them probably don't even know about it. Which adds quite nicely
>> to the point I was making: On Linux, we should use IPaddr2 by default,
>> or at least the methods used therein, instead of the ifconfig mess,
>> which is positively ancient and requires us to jump through hoops (and
>> isn't very robust).
>
> Yes, I agree. I think that many people simply don't use it because
> its not the default. I bet if it was very few of them would complain.
> And a lot of nice things would suddenlty just work.
And, unfortunately it would confuse a lot of people, since the IP
addresses wouldn't have interface names. Evidence suggests that would
confuse a lot of people -- and other scripts.
--
Alan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me
claim from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William
Wilberforce
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