I'm running ubuntu 20.04 desktop version and the OS is up to date. I noticed that when I run ifconfig
, there are about 32 instances of as0t* interfaces like below:
as0t0: flags=4305<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 172.27.224.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 destination 172.27.224.1
unspec 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 txqueuelen 200 (UNSPEC)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 11 bytes 1168 (1.1 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
as0t1: flags=4305<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 172.27.224.129 netmask 255.255.255.128 destination 172.27.224.129
unspec 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 txqueuelen 200 (UNSPEC)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 11 bytes 1168 (1.1 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
These interfaces didn't exist before, and I don't know which process is responsible for creating them, or why they even exist in the first place. I know I have vmware installed, but vmware is known to create interfaces going by vmnet*
.
Running ip link delete itf_name
deletes the interfaces, but a reboot of the system brings them back.
How do I proceed with this?