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 9F7CE13873B for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:27:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81962E0A84; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:27:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eu1sys200aog116.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog116.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.141]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B0F86E0A7F for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.dmz-eu.st.com ([164.129.1.35]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob116.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKUxbuD62uct1J+inBmjMJ/Zq1GwYwCGHt@postini.com; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:27:49 UTC Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (zeta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 36AB721E for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:27:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Webmail-eu.st.com (safex1hubcas6.st.com [10.75.90.73]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id DD7FBB27A for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:27:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from SAFEX1MAIL4.st.com ([10.75.90.68]) by Safex1hubcas6.st.com ([10.75.90.73]) with mapi; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:27:38 +0100 From: Raffaele BELARDI To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:28:09 +0100 Subject: [gentoo-user] dummy0 network interface Thread-Topic: dummy0 network interface Thread-Index: Ac84VSYJxiuerhv3TcWItXfP4rFz7w== Message-ID: <5316EE29.4090106@st.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 SeaMonkey/2.24 x-enigmail-version: 1.6 acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 X-Archives-Salt: 45f74b0f-3ed7-4917-abf8-bee33c53f386 X-Archives-Hash: ad7487250345c8acb207daa3b5dded70 After a recent world update I have a new network interface in addition to 'lo' and the real network interface ('eth0', now named 'enp1s4'): # 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 # udevadm info -p /sys/class/net/dummy0 P: /devices/virtual/net/dummy0 E: DEVPATH=3D/devices/virtual/net/dummy0 E: IFINDEX=3D2 E: INTERFACE=3Ddummy0 E: SUBSYSTEM=3Dnet I'm using sys-fs/udev-210 on an ~amd64 with the predictable network interface names. Does anybody know where this dummy0 interface comes from? Can I (or should I) disable or remove it? thanks, raffaele=