For reasons which are long and complicated, I need to hide a NIC interface. The test machine is a box with 2 Nic interfaces on the motherboard and a strange PCI card with 2 more interfaces. They appear as eth0, eth1, eth2, and eth3. I need to make eth3 not be there. (Not allowed to use a soldering iron :-) ). On Solaris I can use "ifconfig unplumb eth3" and the device is gone. ifconfig no longer shows it. Is there a way to do this in Fedora/linux. I thought about modules.conf, but that would get rid of both nic interfaces since they use the same driver. Thank you for any suggestions. Bob Styma Phoenix, Az. PS: No, I cannot go get a NIC card with only one interface. I have to do this the way the hardware is set up.
