rose[0-9] interfaces?

[Thomas Sailer]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 02:14 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> Huh?  I resumed from hibernate with kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.x86_64 and I 
> noticed these bogus looking devices in iwconfig, ifconfig, and kernel 
> module rose loaded.  Any idea what might have loaded this module, or 
> what it is?

Both AX25 and ROSE are adaptations of the X.25 protocol for use over
(low speed) radio links. See for example:
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO/

ROSE seems to be using an adjustable number of pseudo devices
configurable with the rose_ndevs parameter of the rose module, so these
devices aren't bogus.

I don't know what loaded the module. Maybe one of networking tools like
ifconfig attempting to create a socket with every possible protocol
family and the kernel then autoloading protocol family modules? Now the
question is where you got the rose module. It hasn't been compiled into
redhat kernels for a long time. If you want to avoid these modules being
loaded, you could put:
alias net-pf-3 off
alias net-pf-11 off
into /etc/modprobe.conf.

Tom