What are these new network interfaces?

Recently I've noticed a few additions to the standard net interfaces (are they called interfaces or adapters?).
Tertiary (en2)
Quaternary (en3)
IP over Firewire (fw0)
IP over Firewire (fw1)

I'm not quite sure, but I believe the BSD network interfaces are en0, en1, etc.
Airport, Ethernet, Bluetooth, Firewire, etc. are Network Services. Network Utility's Info tab and the Network System Prefs should say the same thing.
What do you see if you open System Profiler and click on the Network>Locations? ie What do you get for the names of each of the Services? Again, they should match Network prefs/Network Utility Info.
To remove a network service, go to Network System Preferences; Select a network Service, and click the delete ( - ) button.
I don't think anybody has made it clear, yet, that those are not normal. I don't believe they were created by the OS. However, it could be corruption in the plist that is giving everything fits.
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