The purpose of this driver is to provide a device to point a
route through, but not to actually transmit packets.
Why? If you have a machine whose only connection is an occasional
PPP/SLIP/PLIP link, you can only connect to your own hostname
when the link is up. Otherwise you have to use localhost.
This isn't very consistent.
One solution is to set up a dummy link using PPP/SLIP/PLIP,
but this seems (to me) too much overhead for too little gain.
This driver provides a small alternative. Thus you can do
[when not running slip]
ifconfig dummy slip.addr.ess.here up
[to go to slip]
ifconfig dummy down
dip whatever
This was written by looking at Donald Becker's skeleton driver
and the loopback driver. I then threw away anything that didn't
apply! Thanks to Alan Cox for the key clue on what to do with
misguided packets.
Nick Holloway, 27th May 1994
[I tweaked this explanation a little but that's all]
Alan Cox, 30th May 1994
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static int numdummies = 1; dummy网卡的个数,默认1
static int dummy_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
static struct net_device_stats *dummy_get_stats(struct net_device *dev);
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(sa->sa_data))
return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
memcpy(dev->dev_addr, sa->sa_data, ETH_ALEN);
return 0;
}
/* fake multicast ability */
static void set_multicast_list(struct net_device *dev)
{
}
static struct net_device **dummies;
/* Number of dummy devices to be set up by this module. */
module_param(numdummies, int, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(numdummies, "Number of dummy pseudo devices");
static int __init dummy_init_one(int index)
{
struct net_device *dev_dummy; dummy网卡接口对于的数据结构net_device,描述该网卡所有信息。
int err;
if (!dev_dummy)
return -ENOMEM;
return err;
}
static void dummy_free_one(int index)
{
unregister_netdev(dummies[index]); unregister_netdev()卸载网卡接口函数
free_netdev(dummies[index]); 释放dummy网卡资源
}
static int __init dummy_init_module(void)
{
int i, err = 0;
dummies = kmalloc(numdummies * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dummies)
return -ENOMEM;
for (i = 0; i < numdummies && !err; i++)
err = dummy_init_one(i); 注册多个dummy网卡
if (err) {
i--;
while (--i >= 0)
dummy_free_one(i);
}
return err;
}
static void __exit dummy_cleanup_module(void)
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < numdummies; i++)
dummy_free_one(i); 释放注册的多个dummy网卡
kfree(dummies);
}
module_init(dummy_init_module);
module_exit(dummy_cleanup_module);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");