On Thursday 30 January 2003 00:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > What's the big deal? > > internal nic will get loaded as eth0 . That can be easily aranged. You Do > want the internal nic loaded automatically with the network startup. OK, let's check my own particular case. Currently, I have two computers connected into a little home network. The second computer is almost always switched off, so the home network is seldom run. Do you propose that I run the home network ( being off almost all the time ) as eth0? I personally prefer running it as eth1, so to avoid the case of eth0 down and eth1 up. > > However I'm not so sure how smart is it to load the external interface as > a part of /etc/init.d/network start :
> > Suppose that the cables network is unavailable for some reason . What > happens then? You can't even access your computer from the local console, > because it is still delayed trying to connect to the cables. It has pretty sensible timeout, as far as I remember. > > On my home network I set it not to load the external NIC "automatically". > It is loaded from init.d, but only after sshd starts, so I have some > access to my computer. -- Regards, Alex Chudnovsky e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 35559910 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
