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I want to remove a un-use network interface on Ubuntu 11.10 desktop but failed.

virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 16:13:97:0c:0f:4f
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:4800 (4.8 KB)

me@linux:~$ sudo ifconfig virbr0 down
me@linux:~$ sudo ifconfig virbr0 unplumb
unplumb: Unknown host
ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information.

unplumb seem usable in Solaris but not in Ubuntu. Any idea?

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Use the commands below

ifconfig virbr0 down
brctl delbr virbr0

(most of the time virbr0 is a bridge created by Virtualbox or Xen like hypervisors)

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The procedure is explained in full in this LWN article, but here is a snippet:

In the sysfs tree, every driver now has bind and unbind files associated with it:

$ tree /sys/bus/usb/drivers/ub/
/sys/bus/usb/drivers/ub/
|-- 1-1:1.0 -> ../../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0
|-- bind
|-- module -> ../../../../module/ub
`-- unbind

In order to unbind a device from a driver, simply write the bus id of the device to the unbind file:

echo -n "1-1:1.0" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/ub/unbind
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