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Subject: Network device autoconfiguration
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:19:54 +0200
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   Hello,=0D
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The kernel will automatically configure the loopback device, especially=
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add 127.0.0.1 and ::1 address. This is detected with the IFF_LOOPBACK f=
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In *some* cases, it would be statically determine the Phonet address of=
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device, but I wonder how to pass the information from the net_device dr=
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to the stack... Would a device ioctl() be appropriate? Or is the whole=0D
thing just a bad idea? Or something else?=0D
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R=C3=A9mi Denis-Courmont