Remove Network Interface

[John Palmer_5]

We are no longer using an interface "EE3" on the system. It still shows up in Netstat. We have looked into Sysman and Ifconfig but can't figure out how to "remove" it. 5.1B

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi John,

do you want to phyically remove the nic?
Have you tried to deconfigure the nic in sysman?

hth,

Michael

[John Palmer_5]

Yes, we want to Physically remove it later but for now we want it out of netstat. We tried Sysman, it sets the interface up/down only. Ifconfig shows removing an interface from a Netrain config, but not just plain old "remove". Any help would be appreciated.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Doesn't sound liek too critical a problem to me. For looks only use: netstat | grep -v ee3 ?

:-)

Maybe vi /etc/rc.config, remove ee3, shuffle down that others, adjust NUM_NETCONFIG, rcinet restart?

Maybe you can use hwmgr? but I if anything you'll need to do that after the physical remove and reboot. Not worth risking crashing your systme over imho.

fwiw,
Hein.

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

my idea would be to remove the nic with the hwmgr -delete comp command and then shutdown and remove the nic.

hth,

Michael

[Mohamed K Ahmed]

get the NIC down
ifconfig -I ee3 down
shutdown the system, then boot the system with file /genvmunix and build a new kernel, this should take care of the entry in /etc/rc.config that reference the NIC ee3

HTH

Mohamed

[Danilo Martinez · Accepted solution]

1) #hwmgr -show names --> identify you interface to delete
2) hwmgr -remove name -entry tu1

tu1 is an example of one interface

Best regards
Danilo Martinez

[John Palmer_5]

Danilo, that did it. Thank you. Also Thanks to everyone that replied, I appreciate it.

[John Palmer_5]

Well maybe, it did remove it when we do an hwmgr -show name Still shows up in netstat. We are going to remove the card rebuild the kernel and reboot this weekend.
Thanks again.

[Mohamed K Ahmed]

So I was right?, or is this the best procedure to do it?

Mohamed