On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:30:22 -0500, Nick Holland wrote: >If you are in great stress over an expected failure mode, you are doing >something wrong...and it happened long before the NIC failed. Hardware >fails. Be ready for it. Save stress for unexpected modes of failure
I remember telling this one before but it was years ago so .... I have used many Soekris 4800 units as firewalls. They have 3 NICs labelled eth0, eth1 and eth2 but of course show up as sis0, sis1 and sis2. sis0 is pxe bootable so it always made sense for that to be the connection to the modem/ NTU etc I use sis1 for the LAN sis2 is sometimes the server LAN. So it's easy to remember 0 is for 0utside, 1 is for 1nside and 2 is for 2ervers. There is another benefit: if a NIC fails the renumbering will not connect an inappropriate interface to the outside world. That's about as good as it gets. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
