On 04/07/2012 11:19 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Stable IP address assignments are important for any SSH or SSL based access. OpenSSH, in particular, doesn't have useful behavior if the IP addresses swap and you have old public host keys stored locally.
Now that you mention it, every permanent machine on our networks makes extensive use of SSH, rdesktop, and krb5/NFS -- and perhaps having for very long always treated the entire network as one computing resource (aside from guests) has shaped my thinking significantly because I never deal with any independent workstations.
Pretty soon we're looking to move even more in this direction by pushing out multi-seat systems, which has the (really nice) effect of massively reducing the number of machines on the network and concentrating the work further. Unforunately this also means we have to put even more changes into the SL6 base than we already have, so the balance is won if the repo maintenance burden is lower than the reduction in the system/network maintenance burden, and that is yet to be seen.
