On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:

> In a twist on this same theme, I had a user replace a broken NIC card with a
> new one from a different manufacturer (not an unusual situation).  Originally
> the box had rtk0 and rtk1; after the board swap, it had rtk0 and fxp0.  This
> meant that another configuration file change was needed, although in this
> case it was a simple name change from ifconfig.rtk1 to ifconfig.fxp0.
> Obviously not a problem for people who understand the configuration of the
> system; but my user wanted to know why the green light wasn't coming on.  (I
> know, but we have to deal with this type of user.)  This case would be easy
> to automate, as there was no longer an rtk1 device and there was a xxx0
> device not referenced in the configuration.  Other cases would be more
> difficult to deal with.

How do you know it was rtk1 that went away? What if it was rtk0 -> fxp0,
and rtk1 -> rtk0?

Take care,

Bill