Re: OK, I give up

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn mork no>]

Lubomir Rintel <lrintel redhat com> writes:
> 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?

Not necessarily.  Those devices will be created by merely loading the
rose module, which can be done by referring to its 'net-pf-11' alias.
Maybe NM does something that triggers this?


Bjørn