This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: > martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes: > > > also sprach Joe Smith <unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com> [2006.07.01.2110 +0200]: > >> Actually I agree that critical is too high, grave might be reasonable, as > >> it causes system downtime. (System downtime is something anybody running > >> servers would agree is a very big problem). > > > > This discussion is about laptops, a minor details that somehow > > didn't register with me. :) > > It is irrelevant what the hardware is. A laptop is not necessarily > being used as a mobile computer; there have been plenty of cases of > people for whom the most convenient computer around to use as a server > for some purpose happened to be a laptop. It occurs to me that people who want servers to have their network configurations automagically configured for them are just asking for trouble. If this was a problem with standard ifupdown for a server interface, I would agree with you. But autoconfiguration for network interfaces when you expect to be able to reliably address them remotely is, well, the only polite thing I can say is, odd. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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