Tuesday, Roger H. Goun gleened this insight:
> Derek Martin wrote:
> > and 24.1.1.1 for your external connection. I'll also assume that
> your eth0 is for
> > internal network and eth1 is for external connection (this is
> preferable IMO).
>
> Why? Most people I know do it the other way.
It's an order thing mostly... If you don't do it that way and you aren't
able to get an IP address from your DCHP served connection, then you will
have eth1 up and no eth0. I like to have a permanent IP address attached
to eth0, and my hostname attached to that IP address.
I can't really say wether there are functional implications for doing it
one way or the other, but I like things to be in good order (in every
sense) on my machines.
I will note that if your hostname is tied to an IP address that you expect
to get from DHCP, and you don't, or there's a delay, your machine will
probably have trouble coming up. But that isn't necessarily relevant.
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