upgrade to rawhide report
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Mon Aug 23 11:51:45 UTC 2004
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 10:59:59PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 22:14 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > Not fine to a lot of servers, though. Sometimes you have multiple nics
> > in a machine and you don't want certain ones even coming up if you can
> > avoid it. Maybe they're a heartbeat backup nic
>
> Loading the driver doesn't mean assigning an address to it. I don't see
> how simply having the driver loaded would cause problems for a backup
> NIC.
>
> > or maybe they're an
> > onboard nic that plays hell with your bios.
>
> That just sounds like a bug.
A few of those around. More typically the problem is that you end up on
wireless when you wanted to be on ethernet and all of a sudden your
perceived "I plugged the wire in" security is worthless
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