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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:21:26 -0800
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Rick Knight <rick@rlknight.com>
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Subject: Re: Dummy network device
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On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:11:48 -0800
Rick Knight <rick@rlknight.com> wrote:

> I found the answer. From the archive. Decided to look at dummy.c and 
> numdummies=1, changed it to numdummies=3 and rebuilt that module. Works 
> like a charm.
> 
> Question/Suggestion, couldn't this be made an option at configuration? 
> Kind of like number_of_ptys=256.

Specify "numdummies=3" on the module load command line.