Hi there,

After installing Mandrive 2006 Free edition, I've noticed that some strange IP interface appears on my system.
These interfaces are named : ifcfg-nr0 to ifcfg-nr3 and ifcfg-rose0 to ifcfg-rose9.

I'm sure that immediately after installation, these interfaces was not there.

I think there were created after net_monitor was automatically started.
After net_monitor was started, eth0 was not able to connect to anything (even localhost) !

So my questions are :
1. what are those ip interface ?
2. what is net_monitor doing ?
3. why my eth0 interface was desactivated after net_monitor ? (need to reboot)

Thank's in advance

here are some /var/log/messages at time it occurs :
Apr 29 08:11:42 ticerosrv1 net_applet[4715]: running: /usr/sbin/net_monitor --defaultintf eth0
Apr 29 08:11:42 ticerosrv1 net_monitor[6145]: ### Program is starting ### Apr 29 08:11:44 ticerosrv1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 3
Apr 29 08:11:44 ticerosrv1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 6 Apr 29 08:11:44 ticerosrv1 kernel: G4KLX NET/ROM for Linux. Version 0.7 for AX25
.037 Linux 2.4 Apr 29 08:11:44 ticerosrv1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 11
Apr 29 08:11:44 ticerosrv1 kernel: F6FBB/G4KLX ROSE for Linux. Version 0.62 for AX25.037 Linux 2.4
Apr 29 08:11:44 ticerosrv1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 4 Apr 29 08:11:44 ticerosrv1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 5
Apr 29 08:11:44 ticerosrv1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 19 Apr 29 08:11:44 ticerosrv1 kernel: AUN: bind error 98
Apr 29 08:11:44 ticerosrv1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 9 Apr 29 08:11:44 ticerosrv1 kernel: X.25 for Linux. Version 0.2 for Linux 2.1.15
Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on nr3 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on nr1 to 255.255.255.255 port
67 interval 4 Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on nr2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose0 to 255.255.255.255 po
rt 67 interval 4 Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on nr0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose3 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:11:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:11:51 ticerosrv1 net_monitor[6145]: modified file /home/ticero/.net_monitorrc
Apr 29 08:11:51 ticerosrv1 net_monitor[6145]: ### Program is exiting ###
Apr 29 08:11:53 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on nr0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
Apr 29 08:11:53 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:11:53 ticerosrv1 dhclient: Apr 29 08:12:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose3 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
Apr 29 08:12:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on nr1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
Apr 29 08:12:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on nr3 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
Apr 29 08:12:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:49 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:50 ticerosrv1 dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Apr 29 08:12:50 ticerosrv1 last message repeated 7 times
Apr 29 08:12:50 ticerosrv1 hal.dev[6585]: DEVNAME is not set
Apr 29 08:12:50 ticerosrv1 hal.dev[6588]: DEVNAME is not set
Apr 29 08:12:50 ticerosrv1 hal.dev[6591]: DEVNAME is not set
Apr 29 08:12:50 ticerosrv1 hal.dev[6594]: DEVNAME is not set
Apr 29 08:12:50 ticerosrv1 hal.dev[6597]: DEVNAME is not set
Apr 29 08:12:50 ticerosrv1 hal.dev[6606]: DEVNAME is not set
Apr 29 08:12:50 ticerosrv1 hal.dev[6609]: DEVNAME is not set
Apr 29 08:12:50 ticerosrv1 hal.dev[6612]: Apr 29 08:12:51 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:51 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose6 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Apr 29 08:12:51 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:51 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose5 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Apr 29 08:12:51 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:51 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose9 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Apr 29 08:12:51 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:51 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose7 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Apr 29 08:12:51 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:51 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose8 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Apr 29 08:12:51 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:58 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose4 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
Apr 29 08:12:58 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:58 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose6 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
Apr 29 08:12:58 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:58 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose5 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
Apr 29 08:12:58 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:58 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose9 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
Apr 29 08:12:58 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:58 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose7 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
Apr 29 08:12:58 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long
Apr 29 08:12:58 ticerosrv1 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on rose8 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
Apr 29 08:12:58 ticerosrv1 dhclient: send_packet: Message too long

UP.
No idea ? I can't believe it.