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Dummy Device: multiple instances use same hardware address?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Kraemer)
Mon Apr 1 07:14:37 1996
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux Network Channel)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 13:13:22 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>
Hello,
Is it true that when I load multiple instances of the dummy device,
all of these get by default the same hardware address (as printed by
ifconfig)? Is that important? Or is it ignored anyway because there will
never be any arp queries over dummy*?
Martin
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