On 10/13/10 3:26 PM, Paras pradhan 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. Its unclear what your actual question is, but that behavior indicates that you have in fact an eth1 physical ethernet adapter but you haven't enabled or configured it (note there's no 'UP' or 'RUNNING' shown there). you probably do not have an eth12 interface, hence why that gave no output.