On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:58:03PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 9 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Renaud OLGIATI a écrit : > > An added advantage is that on the day you replace your Ethernet NIC > > because it was fried by lightning, and put a new one in its stead, your > > network config will be buggered as the system will givethe new NICt > > a name different from the one assigned to the old one, since it will have > > a different MAC address.., > > Indeed, after two hours fiddling with firmwares hoping this is a software > problem, then cables and hubs to find where the problem exactly is, then one > hour and a half riding the subway to the other side of town where the shops > that have discrete network cards nowadays are, and finally after you ruined > six months uptime to shutdown and install the newly-bought card, editing a > small config file is really the straw that broke the camel's back.
Honestly, I don't think it's that bad. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
