Subject: Re: Cloning network pseudo-devices
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/02/2000 19:22:30
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 10:55:41AM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:

 > 	another question: how can we know that "gif" is available in the
 > 	kernel as cloning pseudo-device?  it does not show up on dmesg,
 > 	nor netstat -in, nor ifconfig -a. (showing it in boot message is the
 > 	easiest thing to do, of course)

ifconfig gif0 create would fail.  I suppose we could print messages
from the pseudo-device attach routines.  Or have some other way for
ifconfig to get a list of available cloners.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>