On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:28:09 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
> After a recent world update I have a new network interface in addition
> to 'lo' and the real network interface ('eth0', now named 'enp1s4'):"a recent world update" means nothing to us, it coud have included anything. > # ifconfig dummy0 > dummy0: flags=195<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,NOARP> mtu 1500 > ether 2e:a2:4b:cb:f2:3f txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet) > RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 51 bytes 19992 (19.5 KiB) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > Does anybody know where this dummy0 interface comes from? > Can I (or should I) disable or remove it? It's nothing to do with udev, it is a kernel feature, enabled by CONFIG_DUMMY. You can disable it if you wish, or build it as a module in which case the interface will not appear until you modprobe it. -- Neil Bothwick C&W music backward: get yer dog, wife, job, truck, kids, and sobriety back.
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