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Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com> :
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> Right. I think the point here is that it does _NOT_ inherently break
> things. If you don't like the behavior, don't run "ethtool -z eth0",
> it's that simple.

It would be better to explain why several sysadmins want this feature
and why it can't be done in an hardware-independent way at the
application level.

-- 
Ueimor