Re: Dummy net device driver

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From: Ivan A. Beveridge
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 00:00

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Following up your own posting, and all that ;^)

Ivan A. Beveridge (iab@dreamtim.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Both of these (and possibly other) problems seem due to the fact that they
: cannot "see" the SLIP interface when it is not up. I compiled the
: dummy i/f driver into my kernel, and issued the following command:
: ifconfig dummy xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 
: (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of my SLIP port), but it still
: had the same problems (I assume because "dummy" does not transmit packets ...
: so how does it help in routing?). Someone mentioned to me that "dummy" had
: to be taken down before the SLIP link could be set up. If this is so (sounds
: fair enough), how can I "up" it again automatically when the SLIP link goes?

Dear Ivan - I think you should try setting up a route before expecting
packets to get routed "through" the dummy interface:

route add -host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx dummy

(What a plonker ;)

Ivan
P.S. Cheers for your persistance Clive
-- 
Ivan Beveridge <iab@dreamtim.demon.co.uk>

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From: iab@dreamtim.demon.co.uk (Ivan A. Beveridge)
Subject: Re: Dummy net device driver
Date: 1995/03/27
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