From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 12:40:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA06540 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:40:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06491 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:39:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA02201; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:42:28 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:42:28 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199603072042.NAA02201@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ds0 interface (was Re: new network device that appeared on it's own) In-Reply-To: <9603071936.AA20060@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> References: <9603071936.AA20060@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > If I do an ifconfig -a along with my ed1, lp0, lo0, and tun0 devices I > > have this new 'ds0' device... > > 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. I think we should rename it to the 'bh0' interface then, or even better the 'null0' interface. *grin* Nate