I’ve some ghost/orphan community interfaces on my Mac Mini M1 2020 (macOS 15.1) that I want to clear up. They seem in a number of locations, resembling within the Web Sharing System Settings pane, in addition to within the Terminal output of networksetup -listallhardwareports.
Operating the command under reveals these community interfaces, a number of of which not bodily exist:
networksetup -listallhardwareports | awk '
/^{Hardware}/{sub("{Hardware} Port: ","",$0); n=$0}
/^Gadget/{sub("Gadget: ","",$0); d=$0}
/^Ethernet/{sub("Ethernet Tackle: ","",$0); m=$0}
/^$/ && n!="" && m!="" && d!="" {
printf "%stpercentstpercentsn",d,m,n
n=m=d=""
}' | kind
Output
en0 14:98:77:64:11:0d Ethernet
en1 14:98:77:5a:8b:1b Wi-Fi
en2 36:32:32:20:15:00 Thunderbolt 1
en3 36:32:32:20:15:04 Thunderbolt 2
en4 82:03:9a:33:94:72 Ethernet Adapter (en4)
en5 82:03:9a:33:94:73 Ethernet Adapter (en5)
en9 00:e0:4c:68:13:10 USB 10/100/1000 LAN
In my case, en2, en3, en4, en5 and en9 don’t exist. I want to purge them. I’ve tried deleting the NetworkInterfaces.plist plist utilizing
sudo rm /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist
Nevertheless that doesn’t make them go away. Associated query with no reply: How do I do away with previous, orphaned community {hardware} ports underneath macOS?