From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon May 18 04:28:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA02726 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 04:28:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA02675; Mon, 18 May 1998 04:28:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from noatun.ifi.uio.no (2602@noatun.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.85]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id NAA00690; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:24:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by noatun.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:24:40 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: babkin@bellatlantic.net, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/6668 References: <199805180601.XAA27202@freefall.freebsd.org> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 18 May 1998 13:24:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Sun, 17 May 1998 23:01:07 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id EAA02718 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 :) ¹ -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message