Huh? I resumed from hibernate with kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.x86_64 and I noticed these bogus looking devices in iwconfig, ifconfig, and kernel module rose loaded. Any idea what might have loaded this module, or what it is?
Warren Togami wtogami@redhat.com
[root@newcaprica ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
irda0 no wireless extensions.
tun0 no wireless extensions.
virbr0 no wireless extensions.
rose0 no wireless extensions.
rose1 no wireless extensions.
rose2 no wireless extensions.
rose3 no wireless extensions.
rose4 no wireless extensions.
rose5 no wireless extensions.
rose6 no wireless extensions.
rose7 no wireless extensions.
rose8 no wireless extensions.
rose9 no wireless extensions.
[root@newcaprica ~]# ifconfig rose0 rose0 Link encap:AMPR ROSE HWaddr 0000000000 NOARP MTU:249 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
[root@newcaprica ~]# lsmod |grep rose rose 57377 0 ax25 70461 1 rose
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 02:14 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
Huh? I resumed from hibernate with kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.x86_64 and I noticed these bogus looking devices in iwconfig, ifconfig, and kernel module rose loaded. Any idea what might have loaded this module, or what it is?
Both AX25 and ROSE are adaptations of the X.25 protocol for use over (low speed) radio links. See for example: http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO/
ROSE seems to be using an adjustable number of pseudo devices configurable with the rose_ndevs parameter of the rose module, so these devices aren't bogus.
I don't know what loaded the module. Maybe one of networking tools like ifconfig attempting to create a socket with every possible protocol family and the kernel then autoloading protocol family modules? Now the question is where you got the rose module. It hasn't been compiled into redhat kernels for a long time. If you want to avoid these modules being loaded, you could put: alias net-pf-3 off alias net-pf-11 off into /etc/modprobe.conf.
Tom
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