From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 18:54:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA00865 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:54:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA00854 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:54:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA01462 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:43:13 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sequent.kiae.su with SMTP id AA26305 (5.65.kiae-2 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:20:59 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA27786 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:52:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA27170 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:50:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA27045 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:49:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA29263 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:40:46 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sequent.kiae.su with SMTP id AA18574 (5.65.kiae-2 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:21:19 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06738 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:42:05 -0800 (PST) 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> X-Charset: KOI8-R X-Char-Esc: 29 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