Re: Does anyone else consider this a bug?

To: Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>
Cc: debian-user <Debian-User@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Does anyone else consider this a bug?
From: Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:28:52 +0200
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Hi,

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 23:52 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> Regardless of mode it should always ask for dhcp/static.

Static IP are only useful in managed environment (especially for
servers). In managed environnement, one is supposed to have RTFM.

On the other hand, computers used by regular users are configured using
DHCP. Regular users would only be confused if they were given the option
to configure IP address manually.

> Didn't it do this before?

I can't remember.

Regards,

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