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Joseph Mckinnon (s303842@student.uq.edu.au) wrote:
: I've been looking intothe how-2-do docs trying to find reference to 
: setting up a dummy network.  My problem is tat I have no network adaptor 
: but I have included dummy net support in the kernel and have networking 
: enabled and etc.....

Check to make sure dummy support is compiled into your kernel:

cat /proc/net/dev | grep dummy

ifconfig dummy0 nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
route add -host nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn dummy0

.. should show a dummy0 and a dummy1 I recall. If you modularised it
you may have to load the module first.

: The problme is with some code I'm working on that is client/server and 
: uses sockets for coms....works perfectly if i'm connected to my 
: isp....when not connected no work....
: any ideas?

Yeh, use the loopback interface. It will do just about everything you'll
need it to do:

ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up
route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo

regards
Terry