On Wednesday 26 August 2015 23:58:03 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. > > Regards,
Hihi! I give this comment 99 points for fine irony. I hope that Renaud has enough humour to find it funny too, especially since he lives in a town in which getting THE new NIC which is supported by his OS of choice is sometimes a wee bit difficult. Kind regards Eike -- Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE Agencia Shopping del Sol Casilla de Correo 13005 1749 Asuncion / Paraguay
