F12 Live CD - Network Question
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Dec 17 14:43:09 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 20:38 -0800, john wendel wrote:
> I booted the subject CD on a Dell Optiplex 720 (dual core AMD cpu) and
> as far as I can tell, it worked great. The question I have is about the
> output of "ifconfig".
>
> Running ifconfig shows 2 active ethernet interfaces, eth0 and eth1. Each
> interface has a different MAC address and shows different amounts of
> transmit and received data.
>
> The questionable part is that the box only has a single network port.
>
> Could someone explain what I'm seeing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
I suspect you have wireless capabilities on you machine and eth1 is
traditionally the wireless NIC.
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