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" ;-)
Havoc