Dummy network device

[Rick Knight]

> Hello,
>
> After I upgraded to 2.6.3 from 2.4.20 I discovered that I can only get 
> 1 dummy device. I need to be able to load 3 dummy network devices. 
> Scouring the kernel archives, it looks like this can be accomplished 
> through MODULE_PARAMS, but I can find no information on the 
> module_params are or how to use them. I have dummy built as a module 
> and it does load at startup as dummy0. How do I get dummy1 and dummy2?
>
> In answering this message, please CC me.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Rick Knight
> (rick@xxxxxxxxxxxx)


Never mind,

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.

Please CC  me with any response.

Thanks,
Rick Knight
(rick@xxxxxxxxxxxx)

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