Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Warren Young <warren at 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. Or, for that matter, you reboot, and oops, you left a USB key in there, and /dev/sdc3 ain't there.... mark