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>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> writes:
    Bill> I'd be interested in hearing from anyone else besides Jonathan who
    Bill> thinks that allowing for hot-swap replacement of a removed, possibly
    Bill> failed, interface with a card with a different MAC address is
    Bill> fundamentally broken.

  I think that it should not be the default. Perhaps it is an option to
ifconfig, or perhaps just a kernel compile time option.
  It seems to me that the hot-swap replacement for redundancy is a very
different environment than Jonathan's environment, which may be more common.

  (Personally, I just resume once I get home, and dhclient configures the
network for me, or otherwise, figures where I am. But I can see his point of
view)

  Also consider the case of having one notebook and two docking stations with
PCI NIC cards attached to the docking station. I doubt we can support that
right now (imagine the poor Win98 user!), but we should think about it.

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