Re: Disabling some interfaces on a multiple interface card

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Talbert, Scott wrote:

> I have a system that has several interfaces that use the eepro100
> driver.  When the eepro100 module is loaded, all of these interfaces
> show up with an 'ifconfig -a' regardless of whether they have an IP
> address configured.  I only want to use some of these interfaces.  Is it
> possible to disable some of them so they do not show up in ifconfig?
> Perhaps there is some option that can be passed to the module?

No, there isn't an option with the standard driver.  It's not clear that
it would be generally useful option.  (Or perhaps I should say "it's
clear how useful this would be...")

PCI device drivers detect all installed devices that they support, and
then make themselves available for dynamically registered (e.g. CardBus)
devices.

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