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Subject: RE: [Zonda] Network initial config via WebUI -- system component
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:52:11 -0700
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From: "Dave Limato" <dave.limato@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>

Le Fran=E7ais. Ils combattent avec leurs visages et baisent avec leurs =
pieds !

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Sharp=20
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:51 AM
Cc: Sandrine Boulanger; dl-Design Review
Subject: Re: [Zonda] Network initial config via WebUI -- system =
component

"What happened to him?"

"He spoke French"

-Monty Python

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:49:19 -0700 "Sandrine Boulanger"
<sandrine.boulanger@onstor.com> wrote:

> Quel est le probleme avec bonjour??? Je ne sais pas ce que tu as
> contre les mots en francais! ;-)
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp=20
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:18 AM
> To: Ian Brown
> Cc: Charissa Willard; dl-Design Review
> Subject: Re: [Zonda] Network initial config via WebUI -- system
> component
>=20
> There are two reasons not to bother with bonjour: one, it is a french
> word, which is reason enough; and second, it's substantially more work
> to implement for a very, very slight increase in ease of use.  I want
> this to go into post-Delorean, and we probably don't have time to
> implement bj in that time frame.
>=20
> The other problem with it is that we would potentially be on customer
> networks, and there can be problems with it there.  For instance, if
> they have a subnet on that switch, but no dhcp server, ie., all the
> addresses are static, they might not like us willy-nilly assigning IP
> addresses to laptops and gateways.  If they give us some addresses to
> use, then we have to configure them and there goes the ease of use
> advantage.  Also, they may just not want us putting a laptop on their
> network period.  If it was my company (or if I was in charge of IT), I
> certainly wouldn't allow any random Windows laptops on a company
> network.  I might not allow any Windows computers on a company
> network.  Or at least keep them on a quarrantined network.  You just
> don't know where those things have been or what deseases they might be
> carrying.
>=20
> Thanks for the ideas -- keep 'em coming.
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20
> a
>=20
>=20
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:57:12 -0700 Ian Brown <ian.brown@onstor.com>
> wrote:
>=20
> > 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 to plug your laptop's ethernet cable directly into the
> > gateway, but will allow you to do the same thing by just plugging
> > the gateway directly into the network as it would be normally would
> > be, and would allow you to configure it that way (via boujour (i.e.
> > dhcp)), and it would allow you to have any number of gateways
> > plugged in and still it would work fine, and it would continue to
> > work as an dynamic dns/ dhcp after it is configured.
> >=20
> > http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/
> >=20
> > Ian
> >=20
> >=20
> > On Apr 24, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> >=20
> > > 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>
> >=20
