[mythtvnz] Wireless Keyboard / Trackball

[Hadley Rich]

On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 13:50 +1300, Steve Hodge wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz>
> wrote:
>         The slowest thing about resuming I find to be waiting for the
>         DHCP server to do its stuff and finish the eth0 connection,
>         takes
>         about 2 seconds to resume and 10 seconds to get the eth0
>         connection again.  I suppose using a static IP would speed
>         that
>         up....however I moved away from statics a long time ago....
> 
> Why not use static? DHCP makes sense if a machine is going to move
> from network to network or if you've got so many machines that keeping
> track of all the ips is a problem. I don't think either of those cases
> applies to a typical frontend.

Nothing wrong with static IPs, I prefer assigning static IPs via DHCP
myself but there's something about single points of configuration I
like.

Anyway. DHCP doesn't take 10 seconds, if it does it's broken.

hads

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