Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: nic enumeration | From | Florian Weimer <> | Date | Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:13:18 +0000 |
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* 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-(
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