On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, 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.
Ditto. This would mightily suck and cause "bad things" to happen on a
number of my machines.
-n
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