[NTLUG:Discuss] Troubleshooting a network connection - fixed

[Terry Henderson]

On 5/11/06, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> 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.

I don't see that it would hurt anything to turn off hotplug when your
not using it. If you think it's causing problems, by all means, turn
it off until you need it again. If you're not planning on adding any
hardware that it needs to detect, then I see no reason to have it run
each time you boot up.  Besides, your computer will boot faster if you
turn it off.
It can easily be turned it back on at any time, it only takes a couple
seconds to turn it back on, so.... no big deal there. Right?

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