Procedure to replace a NIC.

[ronald]

if a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
(hind's laws of computer programming)

:-)
ronald

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Steven Stromer wrote:
> ...
>> Call me the 1 out of 10 guy. I removed the eth0 alias in modprobe.conf,
>> shut down the first machine, replaced the NIC and rebooted.
> 
> In redhat 9, it used to work so nicely:
> 
> Shutdown, replace NIC, start.
> 
> Kudzu asks:
> 
> Do you want to remove the old NIC? yes
> Do you want to configure the new NIC? yes
> Do you want to migrate the settings for the old NIC
> to the new? yes
> 
> Then it works!
> 
> Mogens
>