Re: Dummy network device

[Rick Knight]

David S. Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:11:48 -0800
> Rick Knight <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx)

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