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[Ewan Mellor <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Soren Hansen [mailto:soren@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 January 2012 02:47
> To: Ewan Mellor
> Cc: Jesse Andrews; Jay Pipes; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Metadata and File Injection
> 
> 2012/1/1 Ewan Mellor <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Rackspace aren't the only people to have problems with DHCP.  I have
> encountered a number of enterprises where DHCP is expressly forbidden
> inside the datacenter (for good reasons or stupid ones, that's not
> important).
> 
> I disagree. I think it's very important indeed whether the reasons are
> good or stupid. If they're good, they'll probably apply to others as
> well, so we need to know about them, understand them, and take
> appropriate action. If the reasons are stupid, whatever solution we
> come up with might be deemed forbidden as well for similarly stupid
> reasons. The only winning move is not to play.

I didn't mean that we shouldn't try to understand the reasons.  I meant that it doesn't matter whether they are good reasons or bad ones because either way the policy is there, and we're not going to change it.  If you want to sell to that customer then you have to work with their environment.

In the context of this discussion, that means that OpenStack needs to work in DHCP-free environments, because we already know of many.

Ewan.