Re: ifconfig dummy device

["Denis A. Doroshenko" <d.doroshenko@omnitel.net>]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:26:30PM -0500, Nathan Binkert wrote:
> Ok, obviously, I wasn't reading the original entirely correctly.  Usually
> in linux when you do something like:
> 
> device0:0 in an ifconfig, that means you're doing an alias. You can assign
> multiple addresses to a loopback device.

i read this the same way...

> I'm not sure exactly what the dummy device does in linux.  Does it just
> set up a tunnel with different IPs at each endpoint?

absolutely no idea, just don't know what the beast that dummy is :-)

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