-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jason Straight wrote: > On Wednesday 04 June 2003 01:42 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: >>>2. Who ever switches network cables and needs to have it reconfigured for >>>them? >> >>Users (ie not admins). >> >> >>>I mean how often does someone really travel to another location with >>>another network and not reboot and restart? >> >>Every time they us a cross-over cable to transfer something. > > That happens more often than using mdk on desktops? >
Since it is done with many of the desktops (most users only have one network point near them, if they want to transfer files to a laptop, they use the cross-over cable). So, using a crossover cable between two machines is much more common than using mdk on desktops, and not having it working on mdk desktops could kill our plans ... > >>Do you really think I want to tell our director over an international >>cellphone call how to restart the network and/or configure routes to >>transfer files to a windows machine which has now auto-configured itself? > > > ifplugd is only going to restart ethX with the config in the ifup script, so > it's going to come back up the same way anyway - so if it's DHCP it's not > that hard to have him run dhclient to renew. > And it's also not difficult to compile a kernel, if you know how ... >>It's not dangerous, it only highilghted the dangers you had in your >>network (ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0 would have killed your network in the >>same way ...). > > > Yeah, but I would have done that manually and would expect it You would still be vulnerable ... > - I didn't > expect 3 machines to die when I restarted the switch and not come back up > with the routes and arp config the way I left them. Automation like that is > anal. I have problems with XP disabling the wireless clients sometimes > because of the hotplug detect network connection it has. I wish it would just > leave them alone - if I configure something my way I don't expect some > program to go and take the liberty of changing it for what it thinks I want. Well, AFAIK, you can't even disable this on Windows, and you can easily on Mandrake. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+3jq7rJK6UGDSBKcRAivuAJ9Bk1RvTK0WfEP0/koylc1H+kwbxwCdF9dE 3ANNrxE3RYS9ru4TCzFNv4M= =Yr3V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
