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Date:      Sat, 4 Nov 1995 11:46:48 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        captain@pubnix.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Strange ifconfig behaviour!
Message-ID:  <9511041646.AA07221@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951103235620.20633O-100000@guardian.fortress.org>
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<<On Fri, 3 Nov 1995 23:58:49 -0500 (EST), Andrew Webster <andrew@fortress.org> said:

> Can anyone explain this?

> What follows are two snapshots of my ifconfig -a output taken a few 
> minutes apart.  You'll notice that less tun devices are displayed when 
> more slip connections are active!

It's because `ifconfig -a' uses a fixed-size buffer to get all the
information.

-GAWollman

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