[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > Neat, thanks! Are they actually likely to mess up the host or make it > unstable, or are you just saying "hey, these are for TESTING, capiche?"
I expect the worst behavior to simply translate into a mute interface with or without VLAN but... > I currently have the card installed in a machine, and while it's a > production machine, taking it down to single-user at some odd hour > and doing a bit of testing is not really any more outage, and less > effort, than taking the machine down, removing the card, reconfiguring > the net without it, installing it in a different machine, testing there, > and reversing the process to put the card back. Murphy always hits in your back. I'd rather avoid the screwdriver option especially as I do not know how much time it will take to get things right (if ever). Btw if there is an unused el-cheapo 8169 somewhere, it could do a good job with VLAN until the via-velocity driver is fine. The 8169 is buggy wrt unusual MTU but it is _cheap_. > Is it so bad there's serious concern it might corrupt a mounted file system? Not beyond fsck due to an usual system crash. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
