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.


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