[3832] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: PCI NCR875 Detection breakage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Riley Williams)
Sat May 2 07:35:20 1998
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 11:14:33 +0100 (BST)
From: Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com>
cc: kernel@nls.net, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199805010903.CAA29322@dm.cobaltmicro.com>
Hi David.
> Now, I've never seen this 'whitehole' thing. I suspect it has
> something to do with the DC390F.
> Nope, it's a virtual networking interface used by the routing code
> when a route to a destination goes down and there are a few packets
> left queued to there, in such a situation the whitehole device
> becomes the destination.
Is it like the astronomical white hole then, that spews out stuff that
never went into it in the first place - basically a big source of
network spam 8(
If it just swallows everything that's thrown at it in the same way
that /dev/null does, then the current name is a bit misleading...
Best wishes from Riley.
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