On 06/15/2014 02:59 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
As you say, its about context.
I didn't encounter any of those installation problems; perhaps they were addressed by the time I burnt my DVD? That's another context item, I only install over the network, never from physical media.
Good point. I keep a distribution DVD around for other purposes such as the 'rescue mode'. Does the network installation disk have that? I tried an upgrade once using that method. It worked OK. No complaints. But IIR the DVD approach ends up offering you the opportunity to connect to the update repository towards the end of the installation so does it make any difference? Either you download everything to the DVD or you download everything from the network at install time.
The simultaneous IP connection issue looks interesting. As that page says, some web pages draw from many locations ... 'resource servers' I understand some people call them. At lest now when you start up Firefox it doesn't start up every tab and promptly runs out of connections! But even so I've not encountered that bug.
You would need an environment where ICMP redirects are issued. It's nothing special, but perhaps somewhat unusual.
As you say ... Given the right context ... Anything is possible. Having to reproduce and deal with fringe cases -- all of them -- can put quite a strain on developers and integrators. Especially FOSS types that don't have the big budget for it. -- If people were really trying to just reduce risk, they would be running on OpenBSD rather than windows. So what we are generally trying to do is not really Risk Assessment, but Risk Justification. We don't want to reduce risk so much as justify why we are allowing our assets to be so exposed. -- Bill Royds, 16th September 2005 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org