Re: [tlug] Network annoyingly not starting on boot [SOLVED]

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Dave M G writes:

 > As Mattia suggested, simply removing it and letting the system more or
 > less automatically handle the network turned out to work, much to my
 > surprise.

The next step is to understand why you *should not* be surprised. :-)

If you think about it, you'll see that (from a social dynamics point
of view) the system *should* automatically work, because by now we're
into about the 5th generation of Unix admins, a group notorious for
its laziness.  Over the past four decades they've been busily
inventing systems like DHCP that allow the host's user to be
blissfully ignorant of network configuration.  Even the LAN admin can
often be completely ignorant of the network's detailed configuration
(especially in the modern context when ISPs typically provide a
preconfigured NAT'ing gateway host with a DHCP server ready to go).