Ip address assignment

Hi, The ip address assigned through ifconfig is not persistent. Why is the behaviour so? Instead of editing files to add persistent addresses why not make ifconfig add persistent addresses? Is there a drawback to this? Thank you, Vivek S

RE: Ip address assignment

[mailto:kernelnewbies- bou...@nl.linux.org] On Behalf Of micro...@virginbroadband.com.au Sent: 08 September 2009 15:35 To: Kernelnewbies Subject: Re: Ip address assignment Hi, On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:10:48 -0700, Vivek Subbarao viv...@chelsio.com wrote: Hi, The ip address assigned

RE: Ip address assignment

Thanks for the explanation. I understood your point. -Original Message- From: Bernd Petrovitsch [mailto:be...@firmix.at] Sent: 08 September 2009 16:38 To: Vivek Subbarao Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: Ip address assignment On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 01:10 -0700, Vivek

RE: Ethernet congestion management

Congestion control is handled by both the sender and the receiver. If the receiver figures out that there is congestion that i can indicate the same to the sender by sending a packet back (probably thru another route). The sender then can take the appropriate action. Also congestion can be in any