aacraid and smp kernel: SCSI hang

Greetings all, Our main server is an Opteron system with an Adaptec SATA RAID 2410SA controller and 4x 250GB Seagate Barracuda disks attached to it, forming a RAID-5 and a RAID-0 container. The system is running sarge with the latest 2.6.8 kernel (2.6.8-13-amd64-k8). We recently upgraded the serv

starting eth without IP address

Hi list, I have a sarge system with two NICs. I want to start eth1 without an IP address and with no ARP running, so as to use it just for sniffing. I can't figure out how do that. Nothing I tried putting in /etc/network/interfaces works. The net startup script always complains about missing