eth0:3 keeps showing up.

[Barry Brimer]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, mark wrote:

> Dave Martini 1 wrote:
>> I have RHEL4 and should there always be an associated ifcfg-eth file in 
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for each device that
>> shows up when doing an ifconfig -a.
>> When I do ifconfig -a I see eth0:1 and eth0:3 but I don't have an 
>> associated eth0:3 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
>> Does anyone know where it might be getting the eth0:3 from?
> <snip>
> I used webmin to set up a number of virtual hosts, for me it was for apache, 
> but that's what these are, virtual hosts.

I have 2 guesses.

1.  ifcfg-eth0:1 says "DEVICE=eth0:3"
2.  You are defining a device in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices which I 
believe is usually used by a graphical tool of some kind.  What is the 
output of ls -laR /etc/sysconfig/networking/

Barry