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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