<p dir="ltr">That may be used to act as an internal gateway for virtual machines. Remove the virtual systems rpms and it should go away. </p>
<p dir="ltr">rpm -qa | grep virt | xargs yum remove</p>
<p dir="ltr">That will test the removal for conflicts. Add "-y" after yum to actually remove things.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 5, 2016 6:03 PM, "Edward O. Holcroft" <<a href="mailto:eholcroft@mkainc.com">eholcroft@mkainc.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'm trying to get a better understanding of why CentOS installs a virtual interface on 192.168.122.1 seemingly by default.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'm finding it's creating trouble on my network because AD DNS is picking up this IP on the network and adding an entry for it. I tried deleting it (the DNS entry) but it keeps getting recreated. I could disable the interface, but am concerned I might break something. What's it actually for and is it safe to just get rid of it?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The strange thing is my network seems to prefer finding this virtual interface's IP over the IP that I assigned to etho. I certainly don't want that.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'm running CentOS for Windows file sharing. Maybe I installed some package that results in this virtual interface being installed, but I'm not sure what. These boxes are really only doing Samba, although they do have a basic GUI installed too.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">ed</div>
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