On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:56:24AM +0200, Thomas V. Fischer wrote: > Hi all,
> Is there a way to set-up a virtual ethernet interface (something like
> lo-loopback) that is configurable in the same way as its physical
> equivalent? [Note: Under Windows2000, I would do this using the
> MSLoopbackAdapter].
> I am looking for this as I am offline (no network connection) quite often
> when doing demonstrations or tutorials... Having this feature is handy to
> demonstrate networking!
I think what you are looking for is to set up a dummy interface.
# modprobe dummy
# ifconfig dummy0
dummy0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
BROADCAST NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Rgds&thnks
> Thomas
Mike
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