[CentOS-devel] Timeline for C5 beta / final?

Sun Feb 18 03:02:08 UTC 2007
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ovidiu Lixandru wrote:
>> Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
>>
>>> I have at least 1 machine I'll have to do it. And, guess what ? It is
>>> a remote machine (datacenter in another country).
>>>
>>> Should be fun.
>>
>> Duplicating the remote setup to a local/virtual machine and giving the 
>> upgrade a shot before tinkering with the live server won't hurt. ;)
> 
> A killer on remote machines can be when the new kernel detects your NIC 
> cards in a different order and either skips initialization or assigns 
> the wrong IP's.  It may be hard to test that unless you have indentical 
> hardware.  If you have remote support you may be able to talk someone 
> through the fix anyway.
> 

isnt that why you use hwaddr in your network scripts ?

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