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