Hiding a network interface.
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Feb 14 18:17:11 UTC 2008
Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
> For reasons which are long and complicated, I need
> to hide a NIC interface. The test machine is a
> box with 2 Nic interfaces on the motherboard and
> a strange PCI card with 2 more interfaces. They
> appear as eth0, eth1, eth2, and eth3. I need
> to make eth3 not be there. (Not allowed to use
> a soldering iron :-) ).
>
> On Solaris I can use "ifconfig unplumb eth3" and
> the device is gone. ifconfig no longer shows it.
>
> Is there a way to do this in Fedora/linux. I thought
> about modules.conf, but that would get rid of both
> nic interfaces since they use the same driver.
>
> Thank you for any suggestions.
>
> Bob Styma
> Phoenix, Az.
>
> PS: No, I cannot go get a NIC card with only one
> interface. I have to do this the way the hardware
> is set up.
>
I wounder if something like "alias eth3 off" in /etc/modprobe.conf
would work?
Mikkel
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