On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 10:59:59PM -0400, Colin Walters 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 > > 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. A few of those around. More typically the problem is that you end up on wireless when you wanted to be on ethernet and all of a sudden your perceived "I plugged the wire in" security is worthless
