* Kay Sievers: > Anyway, it's not recommended to do anything like this. On many distros > it will cause trouble with the network scripts/services, which are run > again for already active interfaces. Using the udevadm trigger > 'hammer' on the running system may lead to all sorts of problems. This > tool is usually only used at coldplug time during bootup. There was a time when the Debian scripts were pretty robust. But maybe we've just been lucky. > In general, there is no safe way, or a tool to do this. You have to > know very well what you are doing. It's pretty common, that you > disconnect yourself from a remote box if you try anything like this. Yeah, but there should be a way to do this over OOB management, without requiring a reboot. 8-( -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
