Disabling one NIC

[Waleed Harbi]

Or redhat-config-network command its GUI and easy to use.

On 4/10/06, John O'Loughlin <j.oloughlin at qmul.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
>
> you will see the scripts for starting your  network interfaces, ifcfg-eth*
>
> in ifcfg-eth1 the line ONBOOT should be set to no, so it won't start on a
> reboot (or rather when networking is restarted).
>
> Then take the interface down with ifdown eth1
>
> John
>
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote:
>
> >
> >  Hello,
> >   I have 2 NICs in my RedHat OS 3 server. I have configured one and
> > using only 1 for the
> >   time being. How can I disable the second(I donot want to remove it)
> >   with a SW command(ifdown eth1?)
> >
> >  ifconfig -a output:
> > -----------------------
> > cipsec0   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0B:FC:F8:01:8F
> >          NOARP  MTU:1356  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> >
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:F0:91:2C:E5:B6
> >          inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> > Mask:255.255.255.0
> >          inet6 addr: bc80::2e0:71ff:fe2b:e3f0/64 Scope:Link
> >          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:59188871 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >          TX packets:127812924 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >          RX bytes:4921604534 (4.5 GiB)  TX bytes:191591664439 (178.4
> > GiB)
> >          Interrupt:11
> >
> >   Thanks in advance.
> >   Regards,
> >   Kumar
> >
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Waleed Harbi.
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