Re: nic enumeration

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx>]

* 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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