most of us has  confused between the network devices en, et & ent, you can read the following to put a limit for this confusion 🙂 :

ent:
The notation ent is used to specify the hardware adapter. It has nothing to do with the TCP/IP address.

en:
en represents the interface associated with hardware adapter ent0. The TCP/IP address is associated with this interface.

et:
et represents the interface associated with hardware adapter ent0. The notation et0 is used for IEEE 802.3

inet
it represents a network device (physically doesn’t exists), keeps attributes, infos from the actual network settings (hostname, routes..)

Ref.

http://aix4admins.blogspot.com/2011/05/when-adapter-is-added-to-host-logical.html

http://lokams.blogspot.com/2010/08/difference-between-ethernet.html

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