From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262501AbUCIXiK (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:38:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262469AbUCIXiJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:38:09 -0500 Received: from knight-linux.rlknight.com ([64.165.88.6]:31492 "EHLO knight-linux.rlknight.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262463AbUCIXhp (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:37:45 -0500 Message-ID: <404E554E.7090403@rlknight.com> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:37:50 -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: "David S. Miller" , rddunlap@osdl.org CC: Linux Kernel Org Subject: Re: Dummy network device References: <404E4F34.7000301@rlknight.com> <20040309152126.5c59d731.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040309152126.5c59d731.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: >On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:11:48 -0800 >Rick Knight 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)