Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection

[SwampYankee]

Hi,
Whenever I do an ipconfig I get a bunch of connections that are not
active. It lists my active connections, but then I get a whole series of
these:
Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

They don't seem to be causing any harm and the only downside is that I
sometimes have to scroll around to find the connection that is active.
What are these?
thanks

[Synapse Syndrome]

Are you using VirtualPC?

[Will]

You could Run-> CMD then in DOS, enter>Netsh winsock reset
Need to restart after this.

Could check out more netsh options; also in Defender you can see in Explorer
winsock connections.

[SwampYankee]

no, just connect to many networks over the last year

[Robert Pendell]

Those are the IP4toIP6 translation adapters for the IPv6 protocol in
Vista. They will cause no harm and you can ignore them.

[Chris Swinney]

Just as a matter of interest, i have a total of 27 adapters installed!
Adapters 7-27 are to do with Tunnel Adapters. Why so many? As a mater of
interest, I do have VM Ware installed.