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On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:28:09 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: |
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> After a recent world update I have a new network interface in addition |
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> to 'lo' and the real network interface ('eth0', now named 'enp1s4'): |
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"a recent world update" means nothing to us, it coud have included |
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anything. |
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> # ifconfig dummy0 |
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> dummy0: flags=195<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,NOARP> mtu 1500 |
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> ether 2e:a2:4b:cb:f2:3f txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet) |
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> RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) |
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> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 |
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> TX packets 51 bytes 19992 (19.5 KiB) |
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> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 |
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> Does anybody know where this dummy0 interface comes from? |
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> Can I (or should I) disable or remove it? |
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It's nothing to do with udev, it is a kernel feature, enabled by |
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CONFIG_DUMMY. You can disable it if you wish, or build it as a module in |
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which case the interface will not appear until you modprobe it. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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C&W music backward: get yer dog, wife, job, truck, kids, and sobriety |
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back. |
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