From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 17:49:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (dhcp.looksmart.com.au [202.53.47.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F9F37B43C for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:49:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3O0n6L00666; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:49:06 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Message-Id: <200104240049.f3O0n6L00666@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Mark Sergeant" To: "Doug Young" , "Aaron Hill" , Subject: Re: PPPoE: tun0 keeps old IP addresses X-Mailer: Pronto v2.2.3 On freebsd/mysql Date: 23 Apr 2001 19:48:59 EST Reply-To: "Mark Sergeant" In-Reply-To: <060c01c0cc52$ed9bf720$0400a8c0@oracle> References: <12053.165.228.130.11.986771038.squirrel@www.futureuse.net> <060c01c0cc52$ed9bf720$0400a8c0@oracle> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I get the same problem but have always ignored it as it hasn't been an issue. I still get the same problem in 4.3-STABLE . I tried a few things to fix this but in thew end I gave up with the idea of if it ain't broke don't fix it, I spend enough time fixing broken things to worry to much about this ;) Cheers, Mark On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:10:05 +1000, Doug Young said: > Glad to see someone else has experienced the same > phenomena :) Whats even stranger is that its apparently > intermittent !!!! I'm running a bog standard 4.2 RELEASE > with Tel$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 > > > -- A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message