When connected to a SSL VPN on macOS sometimes you want to find which physical network interface the VPN is using. Listing network interfaces using ifconfig doesn’t help as it is just a list of adapters and if they are linked or not. Looking up the default route with route get 1.1.1.1 only shows you the tun adapter the VPN is using: ❯ route get 1.1.1.1 route to: one.one.one.one destination: default mask: default gateway: my-mac interface: utun0 flags: <UP,GATEWAY,DONE,STATIC,PRCLONING,GLOBAL> recvpipe sendpipe ssthresh rtt,msec rttvar hopcount mtu expire 0 0 0 0 0 0 1400 0 In this case the VPN is using “utun0” which is the virtual adapter.

Trying to remember something I previously knew; how to insert images into posts. Using VS Code on macOS and the Paste Image extension you can copy the image into the clipboard using cmd + ctrl + shift + 4 Once in the clipboard you can paste the image into VS Code using cmd + alt + v. See below: Paste Image will copy the file into a folder and create the link in markup.