Re: Dummy ethernet interface.

2000-02-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > Is there some way to ifconfig up a dummy ethernet interface, one that > > will work like the loopback one (lo0) on FreeBSD? > > If you want an interface that loops back, you can have more than > one loopback interface (lo0, lo1, lo2, .

Re: Dummy ethernet interface.

2000-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 03:24:15PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On 10 Feb, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > > If you want an interface that discards everthing, you can create > > a netgraph interface ("ngctl mkpeer iface foo inet") and leave it > > unconnected. > > Or just add "pseude-device disc"

Re: Dummy ethernet interface.

2000-02-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 10 Feb, Archie Cobbs wrote: > If you want an interface that discards everthing, you can create > a netgraph interface ("ngctl mkpeer iface foo inet") and leave it > unconnected. Or just add "pseude-device disc" to your kernel. Bye, Alexander. -- Everything you know is wrong. But some of i

Re: Dummy ethernet interface.

2000-02-10 Thread Archie Cobbs
Giorgos Keramidas writes: > Is there some way to ifconfig up a dummy ethernet interface, one that > will work like the loopback one (lo0) on FreeBSD? If you want an interface that loops back, you can have more than one loopback interface (lo0, lo1, lo2, ...). If you want an interfac

Dummy ethernet interface.

2000-02-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Is there some way to ifconfig up a dummy ethernet interface, one that will work like the loopback one (lo0) on FreeBSD? I'm playing around with a local caching named on a machine that has only lo0 and a ppp0 interface, and bind always replies with 'for authoritative replies ... blah bl