From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 11:36:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA02819 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:36:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA02806 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:36:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA20060; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:36:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:36:26 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9603071936.AA20060@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Andrew Herdman Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: new network device that appeared on it's own In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < said: > If I do an ifconfig -a along with my ed1, lp0, lo0, and tun0 devices I > have this new 'ds0' device, and I have no idea what it is or where it is > even comming from. Here's my kernal config. Any ideas? The only thing > I have added was pseudo-device disc. I'm not really sure why I added it > as I have no idea what it even does. It is the black-hole network interface. You send packets to it, and it throws them away. It's useful for testing packet processing performance. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant