[Leaplist] swapping hardware in an IPCop how?

[Aaron Morrison]

On 12 Sep 2007, at 10:07, Ray wrote:

> My MB died the other day in a lightning storm, big surprise this is  
> FL, but buggers it also blew up my APC, anyways i have new hardware  
> on order.  I am going from an older PII to a new AMD sempron, i  
> know that in linux i do not have to reinstall IPCop but i have no  
> clue what the command is in order for the OS to detect the new  
> hardware.
>
> Also can i just run setup again to reassign the NICs to red and  
> green without losing their settings?

Presuming it boots, then yes you can run setup again to re-detect the  
NICs.
The settings are abstracted the the RED/ORANGE/BLUE/GREEN cards and  
as such, changing the physical card will not affect the settings.

I usually log in as root and run "setup" to start the configuration app.

--am



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