On 04/07/2012 11:19 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> Stable IP address assignments are important for any SSH or SSL based
> access. OpenSSH, in particular, doesn't have useful behavior if the IP
> addresses swap and you have old public host keys stored locally.

Now that you mention it, every permanent machine on our networks makes 
extensive use of SSH, rdesktop, and krb5/NFS -- and perhaps having for 
very long always treated the entire network as one computing resource 
(aside from guests) has shaped my thinking significantly because I never 
deal with any independent workstations.

Pretty soon we're looking to move even more in this direction by pushing 
out multi-seat systems, which has the (really nice) effect of massively 
reducing the number of machines on the network and concentrating the 
work further. Unforunately this also means we have to put even more 
changes into the SL6 base than we already have, so the balance is won if 
the repo maintenance burden is lower than the reduction in the 
system/network maintenance burden, and that is yet to be seen.