Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:37:50 -0800 | From | Rick Knight <> | Subject | Re: Dummy network device |
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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)
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