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