eth1 exists because the /dev device was found on boot (you have 2 or more network interfaces). eth12 does due to you not have 13+ nic's or did not map a network device to be eth12. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas at gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I don't have ifcfg-eth1 in my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. But when > I do ifconfig eth1 I can see output as below. If I do ifconfig eth12 , > I don't see anything which i am assume is normal. > > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:E8:44:DB:CC > BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > Interrupt:17 Memory:e8000000-e8012800 > > > Don't know why and how this is happening. > > Thanks! > Paras. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Jacob Bresciani Linux Systems Administrator Advanced Ecommerce Research Systems / Terapeak Cell: 250 418-5412 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101013/2c181921/attachment-0004.html>