From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 5 09:59:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21286 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 09:59:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (kcgw1.att.com [192.128.133.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA21253 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 09:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: by kcgw1.att.com; Tue May 5 11:59 CDT 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com ([135.44.192.112]) by kcig1.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id LAA24269 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 11:58:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Tue, 5 May 1998 12:58:47 -0400 Message-ID: To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Character major number request: loopback ethernet Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 12:58:44 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! Should I have sent this request to -current instead of -hackers ? I would like to get the character major number for loopback pseudo-Ethernet driver. This is intended to be used as interface for network access from pcemu (and may be from other emulators also in future). The current driver name is "loe". This driver has two access methods, network and character. The first one is for access from FreeBSD, the second one for emulators. The device is configured like pseudo-device loe 4 that brings up network interfaces loe[0-3] and character devices /dev/loe[0-3]. All of them are connected to the same virtual Ethernet bus. Each logical interface can be configured in FreeBSD or used as interface for pcemu (one pcemu for one interface, so in the example above one interface must be configured in FreeBSD for routing and 3 interfaces can be used to run 3 copies of pcemu with network access simultaneously). -Serge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message