From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 17:10:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF9E837B42C for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:10:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-142-144.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.142.144]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA21472; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:09:26 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <060c01c0cc52$ed9bf720$0400a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Aaron Hill" , References: <12053.165.228.130.11.986771038.squirrel@www.futureuse.net> Subject: Re: PPPoE: tun0 keeps old IP addresses Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:10:05 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Glad to see someone else has experienced the same phenomena :) Whats even stranger is that its apparently intermittent !!!! I'm running a bog standard 4.2 RELEASE with Tel$tra ADSL right now .... intend changing to 4.3 RELEASE maybe next weekend ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Hill" To: 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 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