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Article #307921Re: Does anyone else consider this a bug?
From: Chris Bannister
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:25
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:25
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On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:00:21PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> > Regardless of mode it should always ask for dhcp/static. Didn't it do
> > this before?
>
> IIRC, since sarge or etch it tried to automatically detect a dhcp server
> and on success would configure the network for dhcp. On failing to
> configure the network automatically, it would ask.
>
> (I guess this is a sane default behaviour that is fine for most people.)
IMHO it seems weird to not offer to configure network manually
especially if you know it is going to fail if it tries without asking.
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Chris.
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