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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:44:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
To:        Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to eliminate an unused interface?
Message-ID:  <20060420184319.M72882@tripel.monochrome.org>
In-Reply-To: <1053.204.250.3.175.1145546659.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com>
References:  <1053.204.250.3.175.1145546659.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com>

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Jonathan Horne wrote:

> 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?

Could you not just do a

# ifconfig fwe0 down

?

Just a thought. Maybe you've already tried this, but nobody else has 
suggested it.

HTH.

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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