Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 12:58:44 -0400 From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Character major number request: loopback ethernet Message-ID: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEACDF02@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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Hi! Should I have sent this request to -current instead of -hackers ? I would like to get the character major number for loopback pseudo-Ethernet driver. This is intended to be used as interface for network access from pcemu (and may be from other emulators also in future). The current driver name is "loe". This driver has two access methods, network and character. The first one is for access from FreeBSD, the second one for emulators. The device is configured like pseudo-device loe 4 that brings up network interfaces loe[0-3] and character devices /dev/loe[0-3]. All of them are connected to the same virtual Ethernet bus. Each logical interface can be configured in FreeBSD or used as interface for pcemu (one pcemu for one interface, so in the example above one interface must be configured in FreeBSD for routing and 3 interfaces can be used to run 3 copies of pcemu with network access simultaneously). -Serge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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