On 05/03/2014 11:28, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
> After a recent world update I have a new network interface in addition
> to 'lo' and the real network interface ('eth0', now named 'enp1s4'):
>
> # ifconfig dummy0
> dummy0: flags=195<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,NOARP> mtu 1500
> ether 2e:a2:4b:cb:f2:3f txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet)
> RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
> TX packets 51 bytes 19992 (19.5 KiB)
> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
>
> # udevadm info -p /sys/class/net/dummy0
> P: /devices/virtual/net/dummy0
> E: DEVPATH=/devices/virtual/net/dummy0
> E: IFINDEX=2
> E: INTERFACE=dummy0
> E: SUBSYSTEM=net
>
> I'm using sys-fs/udev-210 on an ~amd64 with the predictable network
> interface names.
>
> Does anybody know where this dummy0 interface comes from?
> Can I (or should I) disable or remove it?
>
> thanks,
>
> raffaele
>
>
CONFIG_DUMMY set in the kernel?
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