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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Strange ifconfig behaviour!
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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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