From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Loke\, Chetan" <Chetan.Loke@netscout.com>,
Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Michael Di Domenico <mdidomenico4@gmail.com>,
linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nic enumeration
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:13:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <827hl5hy3l.fsf@mid.bfk.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilRdnjShlB2JA1TjxMklTjw4ASl3BhwUWtKRdMW@mail.gmail.com> (Kay Sievers's message of "Fri\, 9 Jul 2010 09\:57\:14 +0200")
* Kay Sievers:
> Anyway, it's not recommended to do anything like this. On many distros
> it will cause trouble with the network scripts/services, which are run
> again for already active interfaces. Using the udevadm trigger
> 'hammer' on the running system may lead to all sorts of problems. This
> tool is usually only used at coldplug time during bootup.
There was a time when the Debian scripts were pretty robust. But
maybe we've just been lucky.
> In general, there is no safe way, or a tool to do this. You have to
> know very well what you are doing. It's pretty common, that you
> disconnect yourself from a remote box if you try anything like this.
Yeah, but there should be a way to do this over OOB management,
without requiring a reboot. 8-(
--
Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-09 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-07 22:25 nic enumeration Michael Di Domenico
2010-07-07 22:39 ` Brian Kroth
2010-07-07 23:15 ` Steve Fink
2010-07-08 1:21 ` Matt Domsch
2010-07-08 20:36 ` Loke, Chetan
2010-07-08 20:47 ` Andrew Fong
2010-07-08 21:27 ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-08 22:07 ` Loke, Chetan
2010-07-08 21:24 ` Charlie Brady
2010-07-09 7:18 ` Florian Weimer
2010-07-09 7:57 ` Kay Sievers
2010-07-09 8:13 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2010-07-09 16:27 ` Loke, Chetan
2010-07-09 17:10 ` Steve Fink
2010-07-09 18:23 ` Loke, Chetan
2010-07-09 21:26 ` Steve Fink
2010-07-12 16:56 ` Loke, Chetan
2010-07-12 18:27 ` Steve Fink
2010-07-09 17:15 ` Matt Domsch
2010-07-09 18:55 ` Loke, Chetan
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