[PLUG] Re: Red Hat routing follies

Derek Loree drl at drloree.com
Tue Oct 28 11:38:02 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 10:12, Russ Johnson wrote:
> * Derek Loree <drl at drloree.com> [2003-10-28 09:50]:
> > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 07:37, Russ Johnson wrote:
> > > * Michael C. Robinson <michael at goose.robinson-west.com> [2003-10-27 22:19]:
> > > > The biggest problem with Windows PC's and MAC OS 
> > > > systems is the rebooting issue when any network 
> > > > setting is changed.
> > > 
> > > Actually, this has not been an issue since Win2k shipped. 
> > 
> > > The only time you need to reboot is when joining or leaving a
> > > domain/workgroup. You can change IP, disable/enable networking, etc.
> > > without rebooting in W2K, XP and W2K3.
> > 
> > Actually, not quite true, if you change from static back to dhcp, you
> > gotta reboot the darn things.
> 
> Not on this XP box I'm forced to work on at work, or on one of the 2000
> Pro boxes I have in my testlab. 
> 
> I just changed it from static to DHCP, verified with ipconfig that it
> did indeed change, surfed, then changed it back without a reboot. 

Well now, isn't that interesting, I know I had to reboot win2k last
night when I changed from static to DHCP.  It went from DHCP to static
without a reboot, though.  I really don't like proprietary OS's, no idea
what is really going on.

This is a difficult enemy to know.

Derek Loree





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