On 2018-04-27 17:48, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 04/27/2018 02:52 AM, Wilhelm Schuster wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi,
Thank you for the explanation. >> What I’m struggling with is understanding the differences between both >> interface types (besides the obvious difference in packet processing) >> and when to use which. > > My understanding is that it's not possible to add additional loopback > interfaces on Linux. Instead dummy interfaces are added and removed on > Linux like loopbacks are added and removed on other NOSs. (I know that > you can create and remove loopback interfaces at whim on classic Cisco > IOS.) Can you give a scenario where I would want to use multiple dummy's instead of just adding/removing addresses to the loopback interface? I can't use a dummy interface for "real" packet processing since it just drops the packet. If the use case is to make addresses from loopback/dummy available on other interfaces, then does it matter if those addresses originally came from a single lo or multiple dummy's? Cheers, Wilhelm.
