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Subject: Re: dummy ethernet driver
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
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On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 05:57, Dave Airlie wrote:
> the patch is attached.. is there any reason why the dummy device doesn't
> want to do this stuff? I'm just submitting the patch as a request for
> comments on why this isn't done anyway in the dummy

If you want to talk to local systems why don't you use the netlink
interface/ethertap stuff ?

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