On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 06:10:18PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Salvatore Iovene <salvatore.iovene@googlemail.com> [2008-01-09 09:31]: > > Hi, and thanks for the answer. After all everything turned out to be > > fine. It seems that the Thecus leased a DHCP address after all, and I > > just insisted on probin 192.168.1.100. :) > > This is documented: "If you have used a static configuration different > from the default address 192.168.1.100, these values will be used. > Otherwise, the installer will ask a DHCP server in your network for an > IP configuration." > > However, if you read other messages posted to debian-arm in the last > few days you'll see a discussion about whether the current behaviour > is a good idea. Indeed it's documented, even tho at first sight I just thought that if I had a static address, that will be used. But it actually is "a static address different from 192.168.1.100". I agree that this should be changed to a more intuitive way: if the original fw had a static address, then keep it (whatever be it). If it had dhcp, then do dhcp. At least that's what I expected. I was so sure that I even went to buy a soldering gun and after a night sleep I figured that maybe it used dhcp so I went to check the leases on the dhcp server. -- Salvatore Iovene http://www.iovene.com/
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