Subject: network interfaces, why so many ?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: phil freeman <freeman@lbpc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/09/1998 14:48:58 
why so many network interfaces? are all these compiled into the kernel?
any way i could delete them ? or would that be naughty... i think i only
need the first three....


<elektron@halo:~>ifconfig -a
de0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
        address: 00:00:f6:25:2e:19
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT)
        status: active
        inet XX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255
ep0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
        address: 00:a4:2f:bc:10:1c
        media: Ethernet 10baseT
        status: active
        inet 172.16.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.2.255
lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33200
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ppp1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ppp2: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ppp3: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296
sl1: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296
sl2: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296
sl3: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296
strip0: flags=0<> mtu 1100
strip1: flags=0<> mtu 1100
strip2: flags=0<> mtu 1100
strip3: flags=0<> mtu 1100
tun0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500
tun1: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500
tun2: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500
tun3: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500