DHCP fall back to link-local? (IPv4)
- From: "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle debian org>
- To: networkmanager-list gnome org
- Subject: DHCP fall back to link-local? (IPv4)
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 11:01:02 +0200
Hi,
there was a discussion[1] of this issue in 2009-04. I'm not sure
what the outcome was, but I Dan expressed his opinion as follows:
"I'm not opposed to it, I just think we do need to think through
the consequences of doing something like that, because it breaks
stuff including user expectations."
Was there any further discussion I didn't find yet?
Or should I just you dhcpcd-4 and patch NM to use it like
suggested later on[2]? Is this still correct with NM 0.8.4/0.9?
Thanks in advance!
Background: I like to have this behaviour, because my (embedded)
device should work out-of-the-box with both DHCP and link-local
setups. The drawback is a relatively long timeout when waiting
for non-present DHCP, but at least MS-Windows and Mac users are
used to it, as their OSes work this way.
Cheers
[1]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-April/msg00073.html
[2]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-April/msg00097.html
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