On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:08:00 +1100 James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> For those of you in an admin role you may sympathize with this. I just 
> had to change the IP addresses on a series of radios linking the sites 
> of the company I work at.
> 
> Because we only have windows I had to take a laptop up to the radio 
> repeater site and use it to change each ip address. The problem was that 
> windows (w2k) will allow you to change your ip address once but if you 
> try it again it prompts for a reboot.... So in short each time I had to 
> change my IP so I could connect to each radios subnet... I had to 
> reboot.... grrrr.
> 
> Now if I had linux on the laptop the job would have taken considerably 
> less time because I wouldn't have had to reboot once... viv la 
> revolution.... Linux is a better tool for admin than window imo.
> 

Please clarify: you were maybe expecting something different from windows???

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.


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