Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:10:05 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Aaron Hill" <fbsdlist@futureuse.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PPPoE: tun0 keeps old IP addresses Message-ID: <060c01c0cc52$ed9bf720$0400a8c0@oracle> References: <12053.165.228.130.11.986771038.squirrel@www.futureuse.net>
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Glad to see someone else has experienced the same phenomena :) Whats even stranger is that its apparently intermittent !!!! I'm running a bog standard 4.2 RELEASE with Tel$tra ADSL right now .... intend changing to 4.3 RELEASE maybe next weekend ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Hill" <fbsdlist@futureuse.net> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 9:03 AM Subject: PPPoE: tun0 keeps old IP addresses > > Hello, > > Could someone shed some light on something I've noticed about PPPoE on > FreeBSD. Basically what happens is if my PPPoE sesssion dies for whatever > reason and FreeBSD reconnects, the tun0 interface keeps all the old IP > addresses and the new one. > > For example, here's a look at ifconfig tun0 on my machine this morning: > > tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1492 > inet 61.9.176.53 --> 255.255.255.255 netmask 0xffffffff > inet 61.9.171.78 --> 255.255.255.255 netmask 0xffffffff > inet 61.9.177.xxx --> 172.31.18.24 netmask 0xff000000 > Opened by PID 150 > > You can see the first two IP addresses, 61.9.176.53 and 61.9.171.78, have > dummy/null gateways. These IP addresses are the IP addresses I was using > previously. The IP address 61.9.177.xxx is my current (masked) IP address > with a correct gateway. > > I don't experience a loss of functionality but it is something I have to > remember when I write scripts that might need to extract IP address info. > Also I don't like seeing IP addresses I'm not using anymore still > configured on my system. > > My machine is now 4.3R but I've seen the same issue since 4.1.1R. > > Any ideas? My ISP is Telstra Bigpond in Australia. My ISP account is pretty > simple, I'm not meant to get a block of IP addresses or anything like that. > Just one account, one IP address at one time. > > Thanks > Aaron Hill > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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