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SubjectRe: Dummy network device
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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