[plug] default route problems

[Cameron Patrick]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:05:27AM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
| 
| <rant>  the reason eth0 was set to dhcp client was so the dlink
| (generation II, 300+) could be configured using the web management
| interface it has.  It did not work.  I had to take the dlink to a win
| box to make a http request from a browser (mozilla in this case).  I
| could ping it when it was connected to my linux box, but that was all. 
| Why implement http to be platform dependant?????  This seems so stupid
| and limiting.
| </rant>

<counter-rant>  I have a DLink 300 with the web-based management page and
it works fine on Linux and Windows.  There is nothing platform-dependent
about it - just set up DHCP and go.  </counter-rant>

CP.