On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com wrote:
On 4/29/2014 13:05, Les Mikesell wrote:
can you tell it that adding a USB device and picking up a dchp address is OK, but you don't want to change your default route just because dhcp offers it?
Mixed DHCP and static IP configurations is a very useful but often neglected combination. [1]
Every OS I've used requires some hacking around to make it work as desired. The only reason Linux is easiest of the bunch is because it has a history of letting you turn off the automation, so you can prevent it from doing undesired things.
Yes, but the configs tend to be tied to the names of the devices. If a new device is going to be added on the fly when you jack in a USB plug, where do you hack to say that device shouldn't clobber your resolv.conf or default gateway.