Odd List of Interfaces under FreeBSD 4.6

[David Douthitt]

When running cfengine 2.0.3 (cfagent) under FreeBSD 4.6, I see the
following output:

[..snip..]
GNU Configuration Engine -
2.0.3
Free Software Foundation 1994-2001
Donated by Mark Burgess, Faculty of Engineering,
Oslo University College, 0254 Oslo, Norway

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Host name is: green.cuna.coop
Operating System Type is freebsd
Operating System Release is 4.6-RELEASE
Architecture = i386


Using internal soft-class freebsd for host freebsd

The time is now Fri Sep 13 11:05:22 2002


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Additional hard class defined as: 32_bit
Additional hard class defined as: freebsd_4_6_RELEASE
Additional hard class defined as: freebsd_i386
Additional hard class defined as: freebsd_i386_4_6_RELEASE
Additional hard class defined as: 
freebsd_i386_4_6_RELEASE_FreeBSD_4_6_RELEASE__0__Tue_Jun

GNU autoconf class from compile time: compiled_on_freebsd4.6

Address given by nameserver: 172.16.3.69
Interface 1: tx0
Interface 2: tx0
Interface 3: tx0
Interface 4: lp0
Interface 5: lo0
Interface 6: lo0
Interface 7: lo0
Interface 8: lo0
Interface 9: ppp0
Interface 10: sl0
Interface 11: faith0
Interface 12: T^V^L(
Sorry - there is no current standard way to find out my IPv6 address (!!)

Unable to detect environment from cfenvd


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However, the interfaces listed on my machine (with some sanitizing :-) are:

# ifconfig -a
tx0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 172.22.9.44 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.22.255.255
        inet6 0080::0e0:20ff:f008:f06f%tx0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
        ether 00:00:00:08:09:0f
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
        status: active
lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
faith0: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
# uname -a
FreeBSD myserver.yeeha 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Tue Jun 11 06:14:12 
GMT 2002     murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386

Why is there three versions of tx0, four versions of lo0, and this odd
T^V^L( interface?  Note that ^V^L in the output are actual control-V
and control-L characters...

Aside from this odd output, cfagent appears to work fine.