From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 26 13:42:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B7137B52D for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:42:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkeysler@nwlink.com) Received: from fargo.caldonia.net (ip37.usr7.usw.du.nwlink.com [209.20.138.37]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03111; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:42:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:53:43 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Keeler X-Sender: kkeysler@localhost To: Walter Brameld Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tun0 is growing In-Reply-To: <00022612014105.05869@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Walter Brameld wrote: > I've just started noticing something during the last week or so. I'm seeing a > growing inet connections showing up when I do ifconfig. Here's what it looks > like right now: [snip] > > tun0: flags=8051 mtu 1500 > inet 208.219.234.50 --> 255.255.255.255 netmask 0xffffffff > inet 208.219.234.39 --> 255.255.255.255 netmask 0xffffffff > inet 208.219.234.36 --> 255.255.255.255 netmask 0xffffffff > inet 208.219.234.19 --> 255.255.255.255 netmask 0xffffffff > inet 208.219.234.51 --> 208.219.234.3 netmask 0xffffff00 > > Could someone tell me what this might indicate? Those are the various dynamic IP's that have been assigned to you by your isp. Now they are aliases to the tun0 interface. (except for the last one) There is a section in ppp.linkdown that describes how to keep the number of aliases to a minimum. E=mc^2 student 1 each Ken Keeler "The Internet, is that thing still around?" - Homer J. Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message