Oh yes - I'd better mention what my Ethernet devices are: $ cat /proc/net/dev Inter-| Receive | Transmit face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed lo: 820705 15570 0 0 0 0 0 0 820705 15570 0 0 0 0 0 0 eth0: 3289077 14258 0 0 0 0 0 639 1379700 14175 0 0 0 0 0 0 eth1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 eth2: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:56:0D:E7:3F inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20d:56ff:fe0d:e73f/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:14262 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:14175 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:3289533 (3.1 MiB) TX bytes:1379700 (1.3 MiB) Base address:0xdcc0 Memory:ff6e0000-ff700000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:15570 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:15570 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:820705 (801.4 KiB) TX bytes:820705 (801.4 KiB) # /sbin/ifconfig eth1 eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 87-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 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) # /sbin/ifconfig eth2 eth2 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-02-3C-00-A1-03-71-11-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 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) I think that eth1 and eth2 are both "eth1394" devices, automatically loaded on the two Firewire "hubs"(?) in this machine? Cheers, Chris ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of unwanted email come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/