> On 01/12/2010 02:49 PM, Saravanan S wrote: >> Since everything in Linux is a file, you can create a virtual NIC >> by duplicating the eth0 device file.
How!? Bcoz network interface is not connected to any device file. > AFAICT[1], RTNETLINK is refers to the netfilter API to manipulate > the kernel routing tables not any user space tool to assign IP > addresses to NICs It is not like direct assignment of IP. Some other trick and is related to multicast. Let me try to recollect that. Bye :) -- Bharathi S _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
