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From: Rick Knight <rick@rlknight.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, rddunlap@osdl.org
Cc: Linux Kernel Org <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dummy network device
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:37:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <404E554E.7090403@rlknight.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040309152126.5c59d731.davem@redhat.com>

David S. Miller wrote:

>On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:11:48 -0800
>Rick Knight <rick@rlknight.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>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.
>>    
>>
>
>Specify "numdummies=3" on the module load command line.
>  
>
>It's supposed to be changeable at module load time, without
>rebuilding it.  Try this e.g.:
>
>modprobe dummy numdummies=4
>
>--
>~Randy
>  
>
Randy, David,

Thanks for the replies.

I did try 'modprobe dummy numdummies=3', however, I didn't quote 
numdummies=3. Are the quote required? Is there a modprobe.conf option? 
Probably "options dummy "numdummies=3".

Thanks,
Rick Knight
(rick@rlknight.com)


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-09 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-09 23:11 Dummy network device Rick Knight
2004-03-09 23:18 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-03-09 23:21 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-09 23:37   ` Rick Knight [this message]
     [not found] <20040309162552.0d7f1ca0.rddunlap@osdl.org>
2004-03-10  5:22 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-03-10 16:53   ` Rick Knight
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-09 22:02 Richard W. Knight

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