Hi Raoul, Raoul Carag wrote: > As a context for the second example (Replacing a NIC), you give a system > that has bge0 which, upon installation, was renamed mgmt0. > > For clarity, I suggest to add explicitly that one of the givens in this > context is also that other network and application configurations on the > bge0 interface, such as those on the preceding bulleted list, refer to > that interface using the name mgmt0.
Good point, and I think re-ordering the text and the list would help. I've reworded this section a bit and updated the page. Take another look. > This will highlight better the conclusion showing how a single > rename-link operation spared the administrator from reconfiguring those > network-aware services and applications - because they were already > configured for mgmt0 to begin with. Agreed. I also decided to replace "public0" instead of "mgmt0", because the examples of configurations I was giving in the bulleted list were more suited to an Internet-facing public interface than a management interface. :-) Thanks, -Seb
