IMO there is a good reason for the BIOS to have at least a primitive networking stack: network booting. But *by god keep that disabled unless actually attempting netboot*. Outside of that very specific scenario, the BIOS should *never* touch the network card. (Traditionally this was implemented in the network card as an option ROM, but with onboard Ethernet I don't see a problem embedding the relevant module into the BIOS for cost reasons, assuming it lies dormant until called upon to netboot)
I set up a netboot server in my lab for various install/recovery media and never looked back. No more random "did I get the partitioning right on this flash drive?"
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