[ale] Networking (was: Re: OT: Slow response)

[Chris Fowler]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 18:43 -0400, Greg Clifton wrote:
>         
>         I have been thinking that there needs to be a distribution
>         that
>         abstracts this whole process a bit.  Geared towards (very)
>         small
>         businesses, like home businesses and offices < 20 people,
>         where there is
>         a program that will handle the configuration of the network
>         interfaces
>         and provide for things like failing over from one Internet
>         connection to
>         another when the primary route falls asleep, file and printer
>         sharing,
>         network setup and management (think DHCP, radvd, DNS, tftp and
>         other
>         things that are commonly used to do semicomplicated things on
>         small
>         networks, all more or less automagically handled).  Perhaps
>         I'm
>         dreaming, or maybe it's the heat and dehydration getting to me
>         and doing
>         the talking, but I think that something that did that and did
>         it such
>         that a semi-technical person (I think they're called "power
>         users" in
>         the Windows world) would be able to set it up and run with it
>         and just
>         call a tech when something breaks...
> 

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