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 A980D13873B for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:37:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0628E0AA5; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com (mail-bk0-f46.google.com [209.85.214.46]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B69BEE0A9A for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f46.google.com with SMTP id v15so404364bkz.5 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 01:37:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gccx8PtXc6aXwvqOuGsWLg20S+rtfaT6R6GwWLNJmgs=; b=Z1Uu8fqhRkuyQDc/8InX/OhjPEnVBRqjO1milKaYgQmrcIieQt5Zxmk+QHT584erCj wNl4OLyVrkE0dbthw3dkc3i7fPH051ZTtWZJcnT9SxUi9W1MnG7rX/0H60GGfajupQvu 24muihthtJmcLh8Cg7aAJtisgl/QElY8NB7+4TFIOzbivBOqMaxABk46hLHV54UQtidk gyWHy8qfmwxSaaBZFscxEMUeZBCitDOGDmcWGpey2q2nswcFvSn04zhiNUDu3OVfT2B4 kfsJw0waTGNdbPR2J8mO7v/zkAl1bi6O1GyrYgPw2HauTPxSXPXW7MHbJnuOvJpnBdXN IS3A== X-Received: by 10.204.178.137 with SMTP id bm9mr153406bkb.155.1394012223391; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 01:37:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-127-208.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.127.208]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id dn8sm4021823bkc.13.2014.03.05.01.37.02 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 05 Mar 2014 01:37:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5316F029.60001@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:36:41 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dummy0 network interface References: <5316EE29.4090106@st.com> In-Reply-To: <5316EE29.4090106@st.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4ae46870-1f55-43fb-9e78-788bdd9507d2 X-Archives-Hash: 7dce9e9e5fc7a608b09902425cf84e1f On 05/03/2014 11:28, 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'): > > # ifconfig dummy0 > dummy0: flags=195 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=/devices/virtual/net/dummy0 > E: IFINDEX=2 > E: INTERFACE=dummy0 > E: SUBSYSTEM=net > > 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 > > CONFIG_DUMMY set in the kernel? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com