[NTLUG:Discuss] Troubleshooting a network connection - fixed

[Chris Cox]

Terry Henderson wrote:
> On 5/11/06, Terry Henderson <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/11/06, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
>>> Terry Henderson wrote:
>>>> Couldn't you have just swapped the cables?
>>> Hee hee... nope.  Unless you deploy named interfaces, the
>>> names can dynamically swap based on many, many, many, many
>>> different variables.
>>>
>>> That's a SUSE thing of course.. victims of a hotplug
>>> world.
>> Turn hotplug off.
> 
> (For those that can not find a GUI menu for tuning hotplug off, just
> remove the executible bit for the simlink that points to hotplug,
> "chmod -x  /etc/rc.d/rc.wherever-it-is")

Turning off hotplug is sort of a knee jerk thing to do... I think
it's better to work with the OS rather than chopping it off
at the knees... just my opinion.