Re: OK, I give up

[Lubomir Rintel <lrintel redhat com>]

On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 17:15 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> On Fedora 21 with NetworkManager-0.9.10.0-13.git20140704.fc21.x86_6 and 
> on Fedora 20 with NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-46.git20131003.fc20.x86_64 I am 
> seein some strange network devices:
> > 18: rose7: <NOARP> mtu 249 qdisc noop state DOWN group default
> >     link/rose 00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00
> > 19: rose8: <NOARP> mtu 249 qdisc noop state DOWN group default
> >     link/rose 00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00
> > 20: rose9: <NOARP> mtu 249 qdisc noop state DOWN group default
> >     link/rose 00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00
> and in /var/log/messages:
> > Nov 27 17:04:53 vulture NetworkManager[24854]: <info> (rose7): new 
> > Generic device (driver: 'unknown' ifindex: 18)
> > Nov 27 17:04:53 vulture NetworkManager[24854]: <info> (rose7): 
> > exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/17
> > Nov 27 17:04:53 vulture NetworkManager[24854]: <info> (rose8): new 
> > Generic device (driver: 'unknown' ifindex: 19)
> > Nov 27 17:04:53 vulture NetworkManager[24854]: <info> (rose8): 
> > exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/18
> > Nov 27 17:04:53 vulture NetworkManager[24854]: <info> (rose9): new 
> > Generic device (driver: 'unknown' ifindex: 20)
> > Nov 27 17:04:53 vulture NetworkManager[24854]: <info> (rose9): 
> > exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/19
> What is this?

As the name suggests, those are ROSE devices.

You most likely are using (or attempted to use) an amateur radio?

> It sure does clutter up the output of "ip addr"

Lubo