Hello Noctaire,
Thursday, December 22, 2005, 1:13:18 PM, you wrote: N> Ergo why I said, "usually". :-P The last RH box I set up DID have default N> behaviors of a sort but maybe that's changed. Since they've become so N> profit driven, I've moved away from RH. Most of the OSes I've worked with N> over the years default to obtaining their IP information via DHCP in some N> capacity, whether it's during setup or done automatically. In this N> particular case, he's running SUSE and the last install of SUSE I did had N> the default behavior implemented. :) N> One thing I really like about the latest versions of SUSE and Mandriva is N> that they've become very good at installing and running right out of the N> box. There's few things worse than the tedious nature of some Linux setups. I've been a Red Hat user since version 7... now running a totally updated installation of Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 3... I even have several years of paid subscriptions to Red Hat Network. I don't mind throwing money at Red Hat, and I now (finally!) know the operating system and applications well enough, so that for my desktop... where I do most of my work... I don't want to change. N> Really?! I wonder if that was because of your specific implementation or N> something else. SBC is one of the few ISPs have little direct experience N> with but I've never heard of anyone having any problems. I've worked online N> with folks that have SBC (including my brother at one time) and they've N> never had any issues with using standard/default type setups on the service. I had my entire LAN (6 machines) set up with hardcoded IP addresses, and zero DHCP, because... every machine had a modem, if it had to access the Internet... PPP... not PPPoE. When I got DSL, I had to lose the hardcoded IP's and let the modem/router do its thing, but the modem/router is BSD-based, so it responded differently to Windows, Red Hat, and OpenBSD... each one had to be tweaked separately. I still have a little farting around to do with the LAN, because I am going to upgrade my SBC account to include at least one static IP, so I can move my webserver into my OpenBSD box here at home, from its current location, in a leased FreeBSD box, in Dulles VA, about 1,000 miles away. I'm constant play with and 'improving' my LAN... some people have a boat they pour money and time into, I have computers.<g> >> OpenBSD is non-automatic in the extreme. N> I worked a little with OpenBSD a while back but ended up shelving it. One N> of the many times in the last 10+ years I've tried to really sit down and N> learn the inside-out on the *NIX OSes. I like it. It is very straightforward. I am keeping it totally stripped down, and locked down, because all I will be using it for is a web server, and some *nix coding... mostly for the server. N> So much technology, so little time! :) This is a true statement.<g> -wittig website: http://www.robertwittig.com/ . ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
