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Re: OT - Linux Motherboard Switch
Posted by Lawrence P [Email] (more from Lawrence P) on Thu, 15 May 2003 15:32:25
In Reply to: OT - Linux Motherboard Switch, Justin VanAbrahams [Profile/Gallery]
, Wed, 14 May 2003 19:30:53
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I'm not a SUSE user, and haven't done exactly what you plan, but I'll weigh in anyway (bear with me if this is all patently obvious):
1. Do you really need to do this 'upgrade'? If the box's function is firewalling and routing a small home network, etc., 'old' and slow hardware is likely more than adequate and probably not the bottleneck. If the box has more tasks, eg xwindowing applications etc, then never mind this comment..
2. Some distributions have smart-ish hardware detectors that run at boot. Redhat's is called kudzu, for example. It will detect and configure NIC's in new slots, etc, and load additional modules into the kernel for new hardware. Its not 100% successful, but at least it tries (: Maybe SUSE has something similar?
2.1 Obviously something like kudzu is not going to help if the system can't even boot because of a new MB. But I don't know if this will be the case - or not.
3. Following on #2, hardware autodectors should assign your NICs to devices eth0 and eth1. As long as your existing setup uses those devices, and it probably does, you should be golden....
4. If you can't back up or mirror the entire drive, at least back up /etc --where your important config and networking information is stored.
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Posts in this Thread:
- OT - Linux Motherboard Switch, Justin VanAbrahams , Wed, 14 May 2003 19:30:53
- Re: OT - Linux Motherboard Switch, Lawrence P, Thu, 15 May 2003 15:32:25 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: OT - Linux Motherboard Switch, compaqted, Thu, 15 May 2003 11:37:31
- Re: OT - Linux Motherboard Switch, patrickem, Thu, 15 May 2003 05:20:24
- Re: OT - Linux Motherboard Switch, IrieTom , Thu, 15 May 2003 00:26:40
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