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# Supported Network Interfaces

IPTraf currently supports the following network interface types and names.

`lo`

  The loopback interface. Every machine has one, and has an IP address of 127.0.0.1. `lo` is also indicated if data is detected on the `dummy`n`` interface(s).

`eth`n``

  An Ethernet interface. `n` starts from 0. Therefore, `eth0` refers to the first Ethernet interface, `eth1` to the second, and so on. Most machines only have one.

`fddi`n``

  An FDDI interface. `n` starts from 0.

`tr`n``

  A Token Ring interface, where `n` starts from 0.

`ppp`n``

  A PPP interface. `n` starts from 0.

`sli`n``

  A SLIP interface. `n` starts from 0.

`ippp`n``

  A synchronous PPP interface using ISDN. `n` starts from 0.

`isdn`n``

  ISDN interfaces can be given arbitrary names, but for them to work with IPTraf, they must be named `isdn`n``. IPTraf supports synchronous PPP (the `ippp`n`` interfaces above), raw IP, and Cisco-HDLC encapsulation.

`plip`n``

  PLIP interfaces. These are point-to-point IP connections using the PC parallel port.

`ipsec`n``

  This refers to Free s/WAN (and possibly other) logical VPN interfaces.

`sbni`n``

  SBNI long-range modem interfaces

`dvb`n``, `sm200`, `sm300`

  DVB satellite-receive interfaces

`wlan`n``, `wvlan`n``

  Wireless LAN interfaces

`tun`n``

  general logical tunnel interfaces

`brg`n``

  general logical bridge interfaces

`hdlc`n``

  Frame Relay base (FRAD) interfaces (non-PVC)

`pvc`n``

  Frame Relay Permanent Virtual Circuit interfaces

Your system's network interfaces must be named according to the schemes specified above.

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