On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 10:39:56PM -0400, Havoc Pennington 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 or maybe they're an
> onboard nic that plays hell with your bios. It doesn't matter, simply
> loading a driver b/c the device is in the machine will piss off a lot of
> people who appreciate being able to control what their system does.
>
I very carefully said "on desktops" and "the config files would be used
if present" ;-)
netplugd seems to work well in that kind of environment so providing the
config files are used if there probably. Of course you've still got to work
out what config file goes with what device and what is for networkmangler 8)