<div dir="ltr">Since all this devices are not general purpose I think they should not follow main stream Linux init system. Flat init files would do it. Even loading a driver should be in the hands of the admin not demon.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Jim Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com" target="_blank">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 09/13/2014 09:42 AM, Chris Fowler wrote:<br>
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I wasted so much time with my Beagle Bone Black trying to configure eth0 as static.<br>
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Does your router support fixing an IP address based on a mac address? That's how I have a number of machines configured since I've had trouble with later Ubuntu network configurations not working well with static configs.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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