From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon May 18 17:45:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25090 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 17:45:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iconmail.bellatlantic.net (iconmail.bellatlantic.net [199.173.162.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA24768; Mon, 18 May 1998 17:44:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bird (client-151-200-126-13.bellatlantic.net [151.200.126.13]) by iconmail.bellatlantic.net (IConNet Sendmail) with SMTP id UAA17959; Mon, 18 May 1998 20:40:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3560D354.41C67EA6@bellatlantic.net> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 20:41:55 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-980222-SNAP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav CC: Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, sbabkin@dcn.att.com Subject: Re: kern/6668 References: <199805180601.XAA27202@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > > Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback > > State-Changed-By: phk > > State-Changed-When: Sun May 17 23:00:21 PDT 1998 > > State-Changed-Why: > > Uhm, can you briefly explain what use this is ? > > RTFS :) I asked myself the same question. The driver is inaptly named; > it is not a loopback device, but rather a virtual ethernet driver > which allows you to run simulations (e.g. of network monitoring > software) on just one machine (by configuring several loe devices, and > running packet generators on some of them and the software you're > testing on others). Actually, I think this driver would be very useful > to me for testing my etherlog¹ package - once it gets a little more > feature-laden :) Actually the name shows the history: I started with thinking about what else would I like to get from the loopback device to test the IPX code :-) When I posted its description a few weeks ago in -hackres, I got 3 answers from peoples who wants to use it. If you want, I can forward to you their answers (from work, I have them saved there and my address there is sbabkin@dcn.att.com) tomorrow. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message