Re: F12 Live CD - Network Question

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On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 20:38 -0800, john wendel wrote: 
> I booted the subject CD on a Dell Optiplex 720 (dual core AMD cpu) and 
> as far as I can tell, it worked great. The question I have is about the 
> output of "ifconfig".
> 
> Running ifconfig shows 2 active ethernet interfaces, eth0 and eth1. Each 
> interface has a different MAC address and shows different amounts of 
> transmit and received data.
> 
> The questionable part is that the box only has a single network port.
> 
> Could someone explain what I'm seeing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
I suspect you have wireless capabilities on you machine and eth1 is
traditionally the wireless NIC.
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