pretending a network interface

pretending a network interface

[Gábor Lénárt]

Hi,

Is it possible somehow for a process to pretending a functional network
interface? I mean some emulator I develope requires to have network
capability. On the real machine it will run it has got serial interface
to connect to PC. But I develope it under Linux first, and I try to
test it. It would be cool to have something which can be fed by data and
trasmit it as it come from a network interface. According for example vice,
it is possible to use a serial port, which is linked to another serial port
of the same machine. But this is ugly and I haven't got two free serial
port either.

- Gabor

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Re: pretending a network interface

[Joseph Bueno]

Gábor Lénárt a écrit :
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible somehow for a process to pretending a functional network
> interface? I mean some emulator I develope requires to have network
> capability. On the real machine it will run it has got serial interface
> to connect to PC. But I develope it under Linux first, and I try to
> test it. It would be cool to have something which can be fed by data and
> trasmit it as it come from a network interface. According for example vice,
> it is possible to use a serial port, which is linked to another serial port
> of the same machine. But this is ugly and I haven't got two free serial
> port either.
> 
> - Gabor
> 
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Hi,

I don't really understand what you mean with "a process to pretending a
functional network interface". If you are looking for a way to have
something
that looks like a network interface without real hardware, you should
look at "dummy" module.

On ma machine, I use:

ifconfig dummy0 192.168.1.1 up

to set up such an interface.

Hope this helps
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Joseph Bueno
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