8.04 networking seems awfully broken.

[Karl Larsen]

Jason Crain wrote:
> On Thu, July 24, 2008 7:01 am, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Well don't stop there. Explain what link-local IP discovery is? I
>> didn't know Hardy had any.
>>     
>
> link-local is where the computer fails to find a dhcp provided ip address,
> so it chooses one in the 169.X.X.X range.  It is meant to be a way for
> networking to work without a central server handing out addresses.  I have
> never seen it work properly, either.
>
>   
>>     Now that is a really stupid thing to do!
>>     
>
>   
>>     Yes and that is really hard to do isn't it. Poor boy.
>>     
>
>   
>>     Gosh a password too? What kind of WiFi are you stealing? Maybe this
>> is the whole problem. If you had just loaded Hardy and rebooted and did
>> the little easy things and then let it just sit turned on for 30
>> minutes, it might have just started working. Mine did.
>>     
>
> Can we remove Larsen from this list, already?
>
>   
    Mr. Crain does a wild miss quote of what I wrote and calls for my 
removal from this list.  I think a person who is this small and 
vindictive should be one who is removed.

Karl


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