On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Alex Chudnovsky wrote:
> 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.
What do you mean by "off"? The adapter itself plugged out of the computer?
I fit is not that, then you can simply load the module ('modprobe eth0' or
even more directly) to have the eth0 interface available, but not up.
Anyway, is there any reason not to have the network adapter always
connected?
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Tzafrir Cohen
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