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From: Ben Russo <ben@umialumni.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: weird interface !
Date: 05 Nov 2002 11:55:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1036515355.8715.48.camel@ben.mis.tnsi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F1727WxS6brk1aRcC8a00003047@hotmail.com>

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 11:41, web master wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> hello
> i'm running a redhat machine and while checking
> [root@localhost root]# ifconfig -a
...
> tunl0     Link encap:IPIP Tunnel  HWaddr
>           NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> i see tunl0 and i dont know who made it and why is it there its always 0.0 b 
> and its always there even if ppp0 isnt up , so i'd like to investigate this 
> , is my machine compromised or a software made it , please help me with it .

This looks like a virtual network interface created by the tun.o kernel
module.

Check the output of 'lsmod' and see if you see any modules with "tun" in
the name.  You can also do a search on Google for "vtund"

-Ben.



      reply	other threads:[~2002-11-05 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-05 16:41 weird interface ! web master
2002-11-05 16:55 ` Ben Russo [this message]

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