On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 22:39 -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" ;-) > I must have very carefully ignored them. <sheepish> sorry </sheepish> -sv
