[rhn-users] RHEL v4 + Dell DRAC + Removing PPP interface?

[Alfred Hovdestad]

Hi.

You could check /etc/sysconfig/hwconf to see what kudzu thinks the ppp 
interface is connected to.

$ grep ppp /etc/sysconfig/hwconf

Alfred Hovdestad
University of Saskatchewan



Shawn Parker wrote:
> the problem is lagato networker trys to resolve it. it shows up in the
> error logs all the time.
> 
> running ifconfig produces the following:
> 
> ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>          inet addr:192.168.234.235  P-t-P:192.168.234.236  
> Mask:255.255.255.255
>          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:1345 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:1348 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
>          RX bytes:75102 (73.3 KiB)  TX bytes:139542 (136.2 KiB)
> 
> even tho i have disabled the card via its bios, never configured a ppp
> interface on the server, have removed racvnc daemon from starting at
> boot and stopped the service.
> 
> so, i guess my question is, where is the ppp0 coming from, then?
> 
> On 11/1/06, E Azariah Jason-G20266 <ajason at motorola.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you disable the card in bios itself how can you see this in network
>> utility. As it is a PCI device it would show you that the device is
>> present in the Dell box itself with out having any IP address info there
>> ( ifconfig -a) . This does not mean that the flaw or issue of network
>> utility or you sever box. As well being shown in ifconfig status it will
>> not give impact on your server.
>>
>> Cool..
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
>> On Behalf Of Shawn Parker
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:04 PM
>> To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)
>> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RHEL v4 + Dell DRAC + Removing PPP interface?
>>
>> i did this, but the ppp0 interface doesn't show up under the networking
>> utility. this is why i'm confused. it shows up when running ifconfig at
>> shell, but it's not under /sysconfig/networking/* nor is it in the neat
>> utility.
>>
>> this is why i assume it is the dell drac card...but i've disabled that
>> in bios.
>>
>> any other ideas?
>>
>> On 11/1/06, Shawn Parker <shawn.parker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > thanks, i'll give that a shot.
>> >
>> > On 11/1/06, E Azariah Jason-G20266 <ajason at motorola.com> wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > Invoke neat command on GUI where you can find out the configured PPP
>>
>> > > interface as well you will be having the option to remove also.
>> > > Obviously you can remove and modify the network connection settings
>> > > as you desired.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks
>> > > Jason.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com
>> > > [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
>> > > On Behalf Of Shawn Parker
>> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:39 AM
>> > > To: rhn-users at redhat.com
>> > > Subject: [rhn-users] RHEL v4 + Dell DRAC + Removing PPP interface?
>> > >
>> > > We're running RHEL v4 on PowerEdge servers. The DRAC has been
>> > > disabled, but the PPP interface still shows up on the server. It's
>> > > causing issues with our Networker server. Where is the config for
>> > > the PPP interface and is there an easy way to remove it?
>> > >
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