On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 07:51 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > 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 Because somehow your wireless driver kills your ethernet card or something? > and all of a sudden your > perceived "I plugged the wire in" security is worthless I don't think there should be any expectation of security from being on a wired network, and certainly we should not design with that assumption. NetworkManager just prefers wired networks because they're presumably faster.
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