Subject: Re: Cloning network pseudo-devices
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/02/2000 19:22:30
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 10:55:41AM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> another question: how can we know that "gif" is available in the
> kernel as cloning pseudo-device? it does not show up on dmesg,
> nor netstat -in, nor ifconfig -a. (showing it in boot message is the
> easiest thing to do, of course)
ifconfig gif0 create would fail. I suppose we could print messages
from the pseudo-device attach routines. Or have some other way for
ifconfig to get a list of available cloners.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>