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Subject: Re: extra interfaces?
To: olsenc@smokey.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 10:41:44 -0800 (PST)
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> What the heck are all these extra interfaces besides ed0 and lo0?

> smokey ~$ ifconfig -a
> ed0: flags=c863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 128.95.75.8 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 128.95.75.255
> lp0: flags=810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
> sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
> tun0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500

lp0, sl0, and tun0 are pseudo-devices configured into the GENERIC
kernel.  If you wish, you can create a custom kernel config to disable
them.

> I cannot find in /etc/rc where these are started.  This box is connected to
> ethernet, so there's no need for SLIP or PLIP.

They're not started by default.

> -Clint