On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Ted Unangst wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Network configuration has bugged me a bit ever since I started using
>> OpenBSD, not just the real security issue that Harald Dunkel points out
>> but general ease of administration issues. For example, on a typical
>> single-NIC system one ought to be able to set up a standard
>> configuration and not care which make/model of NIC is installed.
>
>This is where "pound enter until done" in the installer just works.
True if you're installing; I _like_ the OpenBSD installation procedure.
But it doesn't help if you replace a NIC in an already-built system with
a different make/model or need to move one to a different slot.
Do note that I consider the single-NIC ease-of-use issue to be a minor
one; it just came up as fallout from thinking about the more-important
unexpected-name-change issue.
Dave
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