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Subject: RE: [Zonda] Network initial config via WebUI -- system component
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:13:00 -0700
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Thread-Topic: [Zonda] Network initial config via WebUI -- system component
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From: "John Rogers" <john.rogers@onstor.com>
To: "Jeseem S" <jeseem@onstor.com>,
	"Ian Brown" <ian.brown@onstor.com>,
	"Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>,
	"Charissa Willard" <charissa.willard@onstor.com>
Cc: "dl-Design Review" <dl-designreview@onstor.com>

Yay! for dynamic DNS!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeseem S=20
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:10 AM
To: Ian Brown; Andy Sharp; Charissa Willard
Cc: dl-Design Review
Subject: RE: [Zonda] Network initial config via WebUI -- system
component

Hi Andy,
	IMHO
   The one drawback I see is if the customer plugs in the filer without
configuring it. He will introduce a new DHCP server in the server farm
and may potentially destablise other devices (other pcs/servers or
phones may pick up ip from the filer's dhcp server). So not many
administrators will accept devices which have default dhcp server into
their network.

The alternative solution is to have default dhcp client behaviour and if
it fails to fallback to 169.254.0.0 subnet as windows pcs do currently.
 If we get a valid dhcp ip , then update dynamic dns (bind or windows
dns) with a default name.

=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Brown=20
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:57 AM
To: Andy Sharp; Charissa Willard
Cc: dl-Design Review
Subject: Re: [Zonda] Network initial config via WebUI -- system
component

Andy, it would be even easier if you add support for boujour which =20
will take your idea to the next level and make it so you don't have =20
to plug your laptop's ethernet cable directly into the gateway, but =20
will allow you to do the same thing by just plugging the gateway =20
directly into the network as it would be normally would be, and would =20
allow you to configure it that way (via boujour (i.e. dhcp)), and it =20
would allow you to have any number of gateways plugged in and still =20
it would work fine, and it would continue to work as an dynamic dns/ =20
dhcp after it is configured.

http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/

Ian


On Apr 24, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Andrew Sharp wrote:

> I've heard that we are going to try and have a WebUI initial (install)
> config thing for Zonda release, so I thought I would write up how I
> think we should make the system level network part of that equation
> happen.  This what I planned to do for Linux regardless of how the
> config was done, rather than use a serial port.
>
> I'm asking for RFC at this time.  If there are no objections or
> questions, I'll schedule a meeting if people think it's necessary.
>
> Cheers,
>
> a
> <dhcpd_initial_ip.txt>

