Network Interfaces in FC6

[dudds]

Under Ubuntu when I looked at my network interfaces I had eth0, eth1 and lo however under FC6 when I do an ifconfig i get the following:

__tmp1804289383 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:F0:0F:C1:D7
inet6 addr: fe80::212:f0ff:fe0f:c1d7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1737 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1737 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2633432 (2.5 MiB) TX bytes:2633432 (2.5 MiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000 Memory:d0001000-d0001fff

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:D0:73:86:24
inet addr:192.168.254.9 Bcast:192.168.254.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::240:d0ff:fe73:8624/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2590 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2720 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:728589 (711.5 KiB) TX bytes:269958 (263.6 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6b00

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:1737 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1737 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2633432 (2.5 MiB) TX bytes:2633432 (2.5 MiB)

I have no idea what the __tmp1804289383 interface is. Could this be why my wireless decided not to work this morning??

[VictorienSardou]

well, http://standards.ieee.org/cgi-bin/ouisearch?0012F0 reports that the MAC address of __tmp1804289383 belongs to intel, so if your wireless was made by intel then its likely true.

[bfc]

See my post in this thread:

http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=142263

Hope it helps