From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36AF513873B for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:35:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9A3CE0A9F; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE33E0A81 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:35:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 78A5021D37 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:35:43 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:35:43 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dummy0 network interface Message-ID: <20140305093543.32629518@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5316EE29.4090106@st.com> References: <5316EE29.4090106@st.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3-30-gd68093 (GTK+ 2.24.22; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/txd=/vF4zkl/d53h.kDM076"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 888acecb-eedd-4792-aada-a0b80848a1b8 X-Archives-Hash: 19d995685c1d4ea59108e0fd92749a7e --Sig_/txd=/vF4zkl/d53h.kDM076 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3D195 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick C&W music backward: get yer dog, wife, job, truck, kids, and sobriety back. --Sig_/txd=/vF4zkl/d53h.kDM076 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlMW7+8ACgkQum4al0N1GQOBzwCfQuOj3rn/VxneP319oANz7S3m fNgAoKCj8DuOYq38lGH7yHgL01H9tTsG =bimm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/txd=/vF4zkl/d53h.kDM076--