Disabling one NIC

[Padiyath Sreekumaran]

  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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