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Hello,

  I am trying to set up INN for my machine, and one of the first steps
is to configure the dummy device.

  I rebuilt my kernel with the dummy device included, installed it
with lilo as normal and rebooted, but when I try it it responds like
this :

# ifconfig dummy
dummy: unknown interface.
#

  My system is a P75 running Slackware96 (kernel 2.0). It doesn't have
an Ethernet card and the only networking is via the modem (I connect
using a dip script) or to localhost for local logins.

  I have checked the NET-2-HOWTO file and the "Linux Network Administrator's
Guide" and "Running Linux" books from O'Reilly but they don't seem to
have heard of this problem.

  Can anyone help?

Chris

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[posted and emailed]

If you have the dummy device available, it needs an IP address and
a route.  Use one of the invalid IP addresses, like 192.168.x.x or
10.x.x.x and make an entry in your /etc/hosts file:

  192.168.1.1  dummy.host.com

Then use ifconfig to enable it:

  ifconfig dummy0 dummy.host.com

Check to see what it did:

  ifconfig dummy0

Then add a route for it:

  route add -host dummy.host.com

Check to see that:

  route

Then test it:

  ping dummy.host.com

Floyd
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