to boot or not to boot (Solaris)

[Stephen Dorsett]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Stephen Dorsett wrote:

->On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Bryan C. Andregg wrote:
->
->->On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:44:39PM -0400, Lisa Lorenzin mailed:
->->> SO - what's the best state to keep this box in while it's offline?
->->> Which would you recommend, and why?  Is there a better alternative that I
->->> haven't thought of yet?
->->
->->Is there a reason not to keep it on, on-line, and the interfaces configured
->->with a different IP address?
->
->or "ifconfig-ed down" ? You'd have to have console access to turn them
->back up... Or L1-A it with the production interface configuration,
->and just "go" it if you needed to activate it.
->
->But I'd probably vote for powering it off. Save CP&L some uranium.
->

Ooops. Just saw your comment that "down" interfaces was not an option.