[clue-tech] ifconfig display bug? (too many interfaces)

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Wed Mar 8 22:25:36 MST 2006


Jim Ockers wrote:
[...]
> I'm inclined to think this is a display bug in ifconfig, where
> it's using the wrong kind of counter like an ASCII less-than
> comparison or something.

Sounds like a good bet to me.  Or perhaps it's traversing a data 
structure wrong (the no counters listing seems like what you'd get for 
IP aliases so it isn't too surprising).

> Any ideas?  Is there anyone out there with 11 or more ethernet
> cards in the system, or 11 or more dial-up ports?  Does ifconfig work
> properly for you?
> 
> This is Red Hat 7.2 with net-tools 1.60:

Well, you can guess the obvious idea.  One of the ways Free software has 
spoiled me is not to care much about old code.

Dave
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