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Date:      Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:58:40 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Jeff Tyler <jeff@jthome.jthome.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: discard device on FBSD 5.2.1
Message-ID:  <20050131175840.GE930@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200501311614.j0VGEtns042000@jthome.jthome.com>
References:  <200501311614.j0VGEtns042000@jthome.jthome.com>

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On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:14:55AM -0700, Jeff Tyler wrote:
> Can anyone out there in radio land tell me how to create/enable the disca=
rd
> socket in FBSD 5.2.1 ?  Editing inetd.conf doesn't seem to do it any
> longer.  I have a number of 4.8 machines running with working discard
> sockets but there seems to have been a sea change in 5.x .  Does the disc
> device play in here some how ?  Need it for net testing with tcpblast.
>=20
> I have searched fbsd.org and googled to no avail...

The disc device like most other pseudo devices now uses interface
cloning to manage instances.  You can create on on demand with "ifconfig
disc create" or add disc0 to cloned_interfaces in rc.conf.

-- Brooks

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