[Eug-lug] Odd report from ifconfig

[Allen Brown]

What I don't understand is the eth1:avah entry.  I haven't brought
up eth1 in close to a year.  There is nothing currently connected.
Everything happens on eth0.  And where the heck did 169.254.5.111
come from?


$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:29:85:DC:4B
           inet addr:192.168.11.2  Bcast:192.168.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:29ff:fe85:dc4b/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:59006 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:57644 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:3 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:41947666 (40.0 MB)  TX bytes:15257542 (14.5 MB)
           Interrupt:19 Base address:0xa000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:EA:40:05:8B
           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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:1000
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
           Interrupt:20 Base address:0xc000

eth1:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:EA:40:05:8B
           inet addr:169.254.5.111  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           Interrupt:20 Base address:0xc000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:8039 (7.8 KB)  TX bytes:8039 (7.8 KB)
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