26 Dec
2005
26 Dec
'05
00:33
Eric Hines wrote:
At 12/25/05 18:14, you wrote:
As I mentioned in another note, SUSE fireall supports NICs specified in the form of eth-id-00:05:5d:fe:fc:e4. Note that this contains the NIC MAC address. It's pretty hard to get confused by specifying the exact piece of hardware. About the only time this might cause some difficulty, is when you replace the NIC. At that point, you'll have to change the MAC address specified.
I can see typos, with attendant security holes occurring this way, though. On my server's motherboard are two NIC chips built in--and their MAC addresses differ only in the last character of the last character pair.
Well, that's what cut 'n paste is for. Also, Yast finds the info automagically.