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Re: eth0 : no such device



On Friday 31 July 2015 10:00:06 Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Friday 31 July 2015 14:50:18 Bob Bernstein wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > To use my fixed address methods, which are officialy
> > > discouraged by the list police...
> >
> > And what, exactly, pray tell, do those august
> > personages ("the list police") preach? Something tells
> > me that what you jocularly term "my fixed address
> > methods" are the exact ones I have been using since lo
> > those many aeons ago when I sat down to read a
> > hardcopy printout of the ifconfig man page.
>
> I prefer fixed address, almost always use it (I sometimes now achieve
> static IPs by using DHCP and having fixed IP allocation by MAC for
> some addresses in the router) and have never had a problem, nor been
> aware that I was being discouraged...
>
> Just be deaf to discouragement, Gene.  I clearly am.
>
> Lisi

Gotta play the Sid Dabster part to the end, both of us. ;-)


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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