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From: Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] dummy0 network interface
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:27:59
Message-Id: 5316EE29.4090106@st.com
1 After a recent world update I have a new network interface in addition
2 to 'lo' and the real network interface ('eth0', now named 'enp1s4'):
3
4 # ifconfig dummy0
5 dummy0: flags=195<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,NOARP> mtu 1500
6 ether 2e:a2:4b:cb:f2:3f txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet)
7 RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
8 RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
9 TX packets 51 bytes 19992 (19.5 KiB)
10 TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
11
12 # udevadm info -p /sys/class/net/dummy0
13 P: /devices/virtual/net/dummy0
14 E: DEVPATH=/devices/virtual/net/dummy0
15 E: IFINDEX=2
16 E: INTERFACE=dummy0
17 E: SUBSYSTEM=net
18
19 I'm using sys-fs/udev-210 on an ~amd64 with the predictable network
20 interface names.
21
22 Does anybody know where this dummy0 interface comes from?
23 Can I (or should I) disable or remove it?
24
25 thanks,
26
27 raffaele

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] dummy0 network interface Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] dummy0 network interface Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>