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Re: [opensuse-factory] Need to add boot message Warning about duplicate fixed IP address on subnet
- From: Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:31:21 +0200
- Message-id: <20090730143121.GD25628@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:21:28PM +0100, Peter Nikolic wrote:
Sorry for missing to add :) after the sentence.
But in general the userfriendlyness of products made my Apple (most of
the time) provide good hints in which direction Linux might evolve.
But even completely independent of the Apple approach a smart way to
handle duplicate IP address assignement will end users help a lot.
Think of a dbus message displayed by your window manager and informing
you about this type of network misconfiguration issue.
Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
On Thursday 30 Jul 2009 12:30:10 Lars Müller wrote:
b) Apple does it with Mac OS X and if they do it it must be the rightPlease explain why just because "Jobs" bunch does something it has got to be
approach.
right that seems like noise .
Sorry for missing to add :) after the sentence.
But in general the userfriendlyness of products made my Apple (most of
the time) provide good hints in which direction Linux might evolve.
But even completely independent of the Apple approach a smart way to
handle duplicate IP address assignement will end users help a lot.
Think of a dbus message displayed by your window manager and informing
you about this type of network misconfiguration issue.
Lars
--
Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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