* Jiri B <ji...@devio.us> [2013-03-14 16:32]:
> Situation: onboard network card is broken and was used in OS.
> You just plug additional network card, and disable the old
> one via `config' (is this right?). The "policy" in your
> setup is the order of network cards make some logic:
> * 1st backup/installation
> * 2nd service
> * 3rd admin access
> Now you don't use old broken card but you can't make new
> one being first for example. I don't say this is good
> design but I saw it used a lot in my previous job.
> Renaming new card to old one is impossible.

if you had used a one-member interface group to refer to that
interface in the first place you'd only had to deal with the
hostname.if file, at least in many scenarios.

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