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Subject: Re: how to eliminate an unused interface?
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Robert Huff wrote:
> Jonathan Horne writes:
>
>   
>>  my box has a firewire port that is showing up as fwe0.  it is not
>>  being used, and i would like to eliminate this device from the
>>  network configuration.  (some applications try to bind to this as
>>  its default interface, ex: iftop).
>>  
>>  how do i go about elimination, or where is that network
>>  configuration for that located?
>>     
>
> 	"/etc/rc.conf"?
>
>
> 				Robert Huff
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Hello,

Edit your kernel and remove firewire support -- it's in the last lines 
of the kernel config.