only polite:I must first apologize because I could not respond immediately to some posts; unlike others, I do not have time to stay hooked on forums trying to hunt uninformed potential customers; my new clients come exclusively from recommendations of current or former clients.
Personally, I value and respect the generous effort of SME server project developers.
I understand very well the nature of work in the development of sotware package by a team that is based on volunteering; some come with competence in programming, others with willingness to related services such as accounting, cleaning, forums, translations etc ...
As a rule, I am rely on software documentation, when it exists.
About forums, I think (stress, personal opinion) that contain relatively little information directly usable and relatively much noise from dilettantes who have too much free time.
This discussion thread (with one notable exception) reconfirms my opinion.
The exception is the intervention of RequestedDeletion (who authored the Dummy NIC in SME server) with an
extremely elegant solution as update to another solution which he indicated to me via email after my help request by email too.@Daniel B.polite in the highest degree:your statement ...
... Stefano knows probably better than you that SME is based on CentOS
... was made being as well informed as when you said ...
... (support for the dummy NIC was added only for those case where you have a single NIC, and you can't run in server only mode because this single NIC is the public one)
... or maybe ...
I don't see this as a valid use case. Why wouldn't the "other purpose" (backup, monitoring etc...) wouldn't use the LAN NIC, as in such a situations, obviously, nothing else would be using this link.
... ?