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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:18:22 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Ian Brown <ian.brown@onstor.com>
Cc: Charissa Willard <charissa.willard@onstor.com>, dl-Design Review
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Subject: Re: [Zonda] Network initial config via WebUI -- system component
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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.

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.

Thanks for the ideas -- keep 'em coming.

Cheers,

a


On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:57:12 -0700 Ian Brown <ian.brown@onstor.com>
wrote:

> Andy, it would be even easier if you add support for boujour which  
> 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.
> 
> 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>
> 
