Getting rid of strange interface

[John Summerfield]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>>> I have an interface dev6273 on my laptop listed by ifconfig,
>>> which I am finding very difficult to get rid of.
> ...
>>> [tim at carrie ~]$ ifconfig
>>> dev6273   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:41:A7:C7:FC
>> What else do you have, with this mac address 00:16:41:A7:C7:FC?
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> I have an entry in /etc/dhcpd.conf on my desktop
> 
>         host carrie-ether {
>                 hardware ethernet 00:16:41:A7:C7:FC;
>                 fixed-address 192.168.2.14;
>         }
> 
> I see now that I have a second device listed with the same IP address:
> 
>         host harriet {
>                 hardware ethernet 00:02:2D:1D:43:B6;
>                 fixed-address 192.168.2.14;
>         }
> 
> This is actually an ancient Sony Picturebook (C1VFK),
> my favourite laptop of all time, but one I thought was dead beyond revival.
> However, I turned it on a few weeks ago
> and was amazed to find that it seemed to function without problem.
> I even updated it to Fedora 7 (it was running FC-5 when it died).
> It only has the 256MB RAM (the maximum allowed) but runs KDE fine.
> 
> Anyway, that is beside the point.
> But I suppose I may have confused my poor dhcpd with this double naming;
> that would explain why it chose this strange interface.

No, dhcpd has nothing to do with it. I'm asking how many NICs your box 
has with that mac address. There should never ever be more than one, but 
your box smells funny.



> 
> I'm still not clear why it persists;
> I'll try correcting dhcpd.conf and see if that changes things.
> 
> 
> 


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John

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