Our Networking Story

[Bryan Quigley]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Dale Amon <amon at vnl.com> wrote:
> The only feature I hold near and dear is that I be able
> to ssh into a server in a rack 8000 miles away, fiddle
> with /etc/network/interfaces if needed, and then reliably
> ifdown/ifup one of god knows how many connections (I often
> work with machines that have 8 or even more hardware ethers,
> not to mention ethn:m's.
>
> Just a begging note to think of the systems guys who are
> making bulk changes using scripts that execute scripts on
> 5, 10, a hundred or a thousand server (I know guys who do
> that).
>
> Lots of us only use a GUI as a place to let us keep 40
> xterm's available...

Could you detail what process you are exactly using to do this
reliably?  Are you using bonds/vlans/bridging?