From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 25 11:52:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.immure.com [207.8.42.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC20037B423 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 11:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f4PIqL414939 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 May 2001 13:52:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:52:21 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: hackers list Subject: useloopback variable Message-ID: <20010525135221.F1804@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am working on a network device driver that is currently forced to talk to it'self (RX/TX cables are looped back into it) and I am trying to get the system to not use the loopback interface but send the packets to my driver. I have cleared the net.link.ether.inet.useloopback sysctl variable but the packets still never get to my driver. Is there something else that I must do? Note that although my driver is not for ethernet (it's for a GSN adapter), I use nearly all of the ethernet code in the kernel, so I am guessing that this sysctl variable would apply to my case. My system is 4.2-stable as of about Jan 10th Thanks, Bob -- Bob Willcox Egotist, n.: bob@vieo.com A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. Austin, TX -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message