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
C&W music backward: get yer dog, wife, job, truck, kids, and sobriety
back.
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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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