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just a question for my understanding. on my mac when I use ifconfig command on my mac I get the following interfaces:
I don’t understand why there are so many. I understand that eth0 would be for LAN connections, and that en0 is the wireless connection. But macbook only has one airport..so why en1 as well? not sure what vments are for either.
There’s no
eth0on default configuration of OS X. By default,en0anden1are your physical network connections (wired and wireless LAN).lo0is the loopback interface.fw0is the IP over Firewire interface; andvmnetinterfaces are installed by VMware for network communication with virtual machines.