On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 02:15:45 +0530, "Vivek J. Patankar" <vivek.patankar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > >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 :-) ). > > If it's just a matter of not starting up at boot change the value of > 'ONBOOT' in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth3 to 'no'. This way > you are not permanently disabling the device, just switching it off. You > won't see it in ifconfig. That won't hide it from 'ip'. It might help to have a better idea of what the original poster was trying to accomplish by hiding the network card, in particular who or what was it supposed to be hidden from.
