* Jack Schwartz (Jack.A.Schwartz at Sun.COM) wrote: >> The other thing that this check doesn't take into account is you can >> have network/physical enabled but still be getting an address via DHCP. >> So what exactly is the purpose of this check? If it's to determine that >> the system has a 'static' address, I don't think we can ever fully >> verify that (as you said, you can configure a DHCP server to hand out >> static addresses which we have no way of verifying for starters). At >> which point, I think we're left with just making sure that 'networking' >> is up and then trust that they've read the docs and understand that a >> static address (in whatever form) is necessary. >> > Yup. That's basically what we're doing now with this change.
Alright then. Thanks Jack. Cheers, -- Glenn
