Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 20:41:55 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, sbabkin@dcn.att.com Subject: Re: kern/6668 Message-ID: <3560D354.41C67EA6@bellatlantic.net> References: <199805180601.XAA27202@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpsom7akjs.fsf@noatun.ifi.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > > Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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