On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:57:04AM +0530, Soren Hansen wrote: > interfaces as it would have any other statically configured interface, > because that's what /etc/network/interfaces says it should do. > > When it's ifup'ed again, it gets the right address assigned, but the > dhcp client is still running in the background, waiting to screw up your > network config once the lease is about to expire.
Yes, and did I ever let out a string of invective the first time this happened to me on a *server* build. It was just beyond the pale that a server would get configured with dhcp and not put things in /etc/network/interfaces where they belonged. After swearing imprecations on the parentage and ancestry of all those who made this change I slowly came down to a grumble and finally agreed with a now deceased friend, Hugh Daniels, about the 'Linux Children' as he so aptly put it. If you are re-thinking things, just don't do this again. Make it go away. Get rid of it. It is a terrible idea. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
