Re: how to eliminate an unused interface?

2006-04-20 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Thursday 20 April 2006 17:44, Chris Hill wrote: > 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. > > -- > Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** [ Busy Expungin

Re: how to eliminate an unused interface?

2006-04-20 Thread Chris Hill
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 elim

Re: how to eliminate an unused interface?

2006-04-20 Thread Fabian Keil
"Jonathan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > removing firewire from the kernel would work, but then i would not > beable to plug in a firewire drive down the road. i just want to > eliminate the firewire networking interface support. You could remove "device fwe" without disabling "device firew

Re: how to eliminate an unused interface?

2006-04-20 Thread Jonathan Horne
> 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: ifto

Re: how to eliminate an unused interface?

2006-04-20 Thread Hugo Silva
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 a

RE: how to eliminate an unused interface?

2006-04-20 Thread fbsd
Disabling it in the pc bios will cause FreeBSD not to find it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonathan Horne Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to eliminate an unused interface? my box has a firewire