From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261997AbUCIXLm (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:11:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262325AbUCIXLm (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:11:42 -0500 Received: from knight-linux.rlknight.com ([64.165.88.6]:30724 "EHLO knight-linux.rlknight.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261997AbUCIXLc (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:11:32 -0500 Message-ID: <404E4F34.7000301@rlknight.com> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:11:48 -0800 From: Rick Knight User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Org Subject: Dummy network device Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Hello, > > After I upgraded to 2.6.3 from 2.4.20 I discovered that I can only get > 1 dummy device. I need to be able to load 3 dummy network devices. > Scouring the kernel archives, it looks like this can be accomplished > through MODULE_PARAMS, but I can find no information on the > module_params are or how to use them. I have dummy built as a module > and it does load at startup as dummy0. How do I get dummy1 and dummy2? > > In answering this message, please CC me. > > Thanks for your help, > Rick Knight > (rick@rlknight.com) Never mind, I found the answer. From the archive. Decided to look at dummy.c and numdummies=1, changed it to numdummies=3 and rebuilt that module. Works like a charm. Question/Suggestion, couldn't this be made an option at configuration? Kind of like number_of_ptys=256. Please CC me with any response. Thanks, Rick Knight (rick@rlknight.com)