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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dummy0 network interface
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:35:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140305093543.32629518@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5316EE29.4090106@st.com>

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On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:28:09 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:

> After a recent world update I have a new network interface in addition
> to 'lo' and the real network interface ('eth0', now named 'enp1s4'):

"a recent world update" means nothing to us, it coud have included
anything.

> # ifconfig dummy0
> dummy0: flags=195<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,NOARP>  mtu 1500
>         ether 2e:a2:4b:cb:f2:3f  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
>         RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
>         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
>         TX packets 51  bytes 19992 (19.5 KiB)
>         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

> Does anybody know where this dummy0 interface comes from?
> Can I (or should I) disable or remove it?

It's nothing to do with udev, it is a kernel feature, enabled by
CONFIG_DUMMY. You can disable it if you wish, or build it as a module in
which case the interface will not appear until you modprobe it.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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back.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-05  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-05  9:28 [gentoo-user] dummy0 network interface Raffaele BELARDI
2014-03-05  9:35 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2014-03-05  9:36 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-03-05  9:56   ` Raffaele BELARDI

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