Hello listmates,
I recently installed Fedora 16 as a guest VM under VirtualBox and instead
of the usual eth0/eth1 etc. names I got the following:
[root@ipa-test0 ~]# ifconfig
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:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:812 (812.0 b) TX bytes:812 (812.0 b)
p2p1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:1C:C1:37
inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe1c:c137/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1653 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:890 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1488287 (1.4 MiB) TX bytes:58177 (56.8 KiB)
p7p1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:D2:29:56
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fed2:2956/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:13122 (12.8 KiB)
[root@ipa-test0 ~]#
Any idea where these strange names come from and what the significance of
them is?
Thanks.
Boris.
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