Re: ipfwadm on Alpha / RH 5.1

["Designer 7" <designer_7@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay.. maybe here is a perspective that might get Redhat people thinking 
since they plan to target the enterprise with Linux.

I wasn't aware of the broken DHCPCD... since I don't have enough 
machines here to justify using DHCP. But on a corporate network with 
hundreds (thousands?) of nodes, IP management is a pain unless you use 
something like DHCP. So, RedHat, if any of you read this.... perhaps 
it's in your best interest to fix and test more of your distributions? 
From my experience, IT managers will dismiss a product if it doesn't 
work out of the box... they don't want to spend time to fix a product 
that they expect to work out of the box....food for thought?

But also, as I've stated in a post a long time ago... if RedHat people 
are too busy to test the distribution, they should release a 
no-guarantee (or implied), "beta" distribution and let others test and 
submit results. Perhaps offer volunteer "beta-testers" a free RH box 
once it is "officially" released? I know the rawhide site seems to be 
doing something like this... but how much feedback does redhat get?

Overall, if RedHat, or Linux in general wants to penetrate into the 
market of corporate computing, these kind of things need to be fixed.

D
>
>With regards to your message at 01:06 PM 01-11-99 PST, Designer 7. 
Where
>you stated:
>>Now, that is something I don't understand... if the ipfwadm works with 
>>5.0 then why does RH insist on bundling a broken ipfwadm with 5.1 and 
>>5.2? The only difference is that the release number of the ipfwadm 
with 
>>5.2 and 5.1 is higher (perhaps a patch?). I just don't understand...
>
>Me neither, but then why did they also include a broken DHCPCD binary 
on 5.2?
>All this makes hooking up a machine to a network an "interesting" 
proposition.
>All I can say is that it looks like they actually "test" very little, 
if
>any of this software on anything _but_ a "standard" ethernet to a hub. 
If
>you use a modem, cable-modem, ISDN, or anything else like that it is an
>uphill battle with 5.2


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