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.