[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

[Toomas Soome]

> On 13. Apr 2022, at 22:32, stes at PANDORA.BE <stes at telenet.be> wrote:
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> ----- Op 13 apr 2022 om 21:13 schreef Judah Richardson judahrichardson at gmail.com:
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>> Speaking as an experimental user (read: OI is not my daily driver) who
>> acknowledges OI inherits a lot of internal functionality from a
>> server/workstation distro (openSolaris): all of this strikes me as
>> anachronistically(?) complicated for something that should by default
>> expect to get an IP address lease from any DHCP server on a network to
>> which it's connected.
> 
> It's not really anachronistic.  It's just that there is an enormous amount of history behind the networking stack and OpenIndiana is the kind of operating system distribution where users appreciate "old conventions" for configuring the network.
> 

This is just bad excuse to have mess about how you configure your network. 

rgds,
toomas