Re: [gentoo-user] strange net interfaces

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 11 May 2009 11:06:20 Raul Gonzales wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've found that when I run ip link show on my box it gives me:
>
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>     inet 127.0.0.1/8 brd 127.255.255.255 scope host lo
>     inet6 ::1/128 scope host
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state
> UP qlen 100
>     link/ether 00:0d:60:91:03:1f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 192.168.1.11/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
>     inet6 fe80::20d:60ff:fe91:31f/64 scope link
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 3: bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN
>     link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 4: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN
>     link/ether 8a:3c:77:a9:b5:c0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 5: ifb0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 32
>     link/ether 8e:cf:e3:61:30:ea brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 6: ifb1: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 32
>     link/ether 8e:ba:b0:96:8e:d7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 7: teql0: <NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 100
>     link/void
> 8: tunl0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN
>     link/ipip 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
> 9: gre0: <NOARP> mtu 1476 qdisc noop state DOWN
>     link/gre 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
> 10: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN
>     link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
>
>
> but I expected only lo and eth0 as I did not configured the others. How
> could I get rid of the rest of interfaces?

Seems like you have a truck load of kernel modules loaded that you don't use.

Stop those modules from loading, or just don't load them until you really do 
need them.

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