On Thursday 27 August 2015 19:01:32 Chris Bannister wrote: > 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.
Chris, what happened to your sense of humour? ;-) This isn't like you! Lisi
