Odd ifconfig error : unknown interface in 2.1.125

Jordan Mendelson (jordy@wserv.com)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:25:58 -0500

Once in a while, while doing an ifconfig to see collisions and what not I
get an error message ": unknown interface". It goes away after I run
ifconfig and get it however for several days.

# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
txqueuelen:0
RX packets:12690471 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12690471 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:E1:F5:E1
inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:x.x.x.x Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
txqueuelen:100
RX packets:34557628 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:509
TX packets:29459389 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0
Collisions:1145570
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xdf00

: unknown interface.
#

This is net-tools 1.45 w/ ifconfig 1.33. Gated runs on this machine as well
as several virtual subinterfaces (none which show up in ifconfig since they
changed it unfortunately).

Jordan

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