[CoLoCo] odd network interface

[Jim Hutchinson]

Thanks for the info. However, I never installed avahi on that laptop and no
other computer (including laptops) has it. How did it get there?

On 8/30/07, NICK VERBECK <nerdynick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Its used by Avahi. (eth0:avahi) would be the full name. I'm guessing
> Avahi uses it to keep thing separate.
>
> On 8/30/07, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
> > Okay, here is something odd I just discovered. I was reconfiguring my
> > wireless security tonight and while setting up my wife's laptop I ran
> > ifconfig. In addition to eth0 (the wired interface) and eth1 (the
> wireless
> > interface) I found this entry:
> >
> > eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:3F:FA:01:DB
> >           inet addr:169.254.7.202  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:
> 255.255.0.0
> >           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           Interrupt:11
> >
> > Now, the laptop connects to the network wirelessly so eth0 isn't doing
> > anything. What I'd like to know is what the heck eth0:avah is and how it
> has
> > an address. Even more interesting is that I can ping that address from
> the
> > laptop.
> >
> > Has anyone seen anything like this before? Any ideas what it is? My
> first
> > paranoid reaction was that someone had set up an ad hoc connection but
> it's
> > on the wrong adapter (wired) and as far as I know it was never running
> any
> > service that would allow this anyway. Avahi came to mind because of the
> > similar name (eth0:avah) but I never set that up and my wife doesn't
> have
> > sudo rights.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Jim
> >
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