On Tuesday 26 September 2006 02:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >What kind of hairy transition will you need to go through?
>
> Renaming the ethernet driver of a headless internet facing system is
> difficult.
>
> - Remove the "rh" driver and add the "vfe" driver.
> - Change all the instances of "rh" in the OS to "vfe"
>
>       - hostname.XX, dhcp.XX
>       - ipfilter configuration
>
> - and then reboot and hope it comes up.

You are the same guy that took a stab at PowerNOW, right? I mean, replacing 
the NIC driver sounds pretty complicated in comparison...I guess you're 
right...that is pretty hairy...

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Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems
Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group


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