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Re: dynamic creation of ethernet instances ?
Does it add the interface to the NETDEVTAB ??? Doesn't seem like it ...
Philippe
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 08:39 pm, Gary D. Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 17:21, Philippe Moutarlier wrote:
> > In a certain application we need to ba able to generate dynamically an
> > arbitrary (well, limited by memory , of course) number of "logical"
> > ethernet interfaces.
> > Multiple logical interfaces might be tied to 1 physical interface, but it
> > would be important that the upper layer sees each logical interface as
> > a "real" ethernet. Multiple VLANs would be an example of this.
> >
> > Anyway to do this ? It seems to break the compile time macro behavior ...
>
> Why? All that's necessary is to call 'eth_drv_init()' with
> the appropriate data. You can create interfaces all day if
> you want.
>
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