/* dummy.c: a dummy net driver 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 thats all] Alan Cox, 30th May 1994 */ /* To have statistics (just packets sent) define this */ #undef DUMMY_STATS #ifdef MODULE #include #include #endif #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include static int dummy_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct device *dev); #ifdef DUMMY_STATS static struct enet_statistics *dummy_get_stats(struct device *dev); #endif #ifdef MODULE static int dummy_open(struct device *dev) { MOD_INC_USE_COUNT; return 0; } static int dummy_close(struct device *dev) { MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT; return 0; } #endif int dummy_init(struct device *dev) { /* I commented this out as bootup is noisy enough anyway and this driver seems pretty reliable 8) 8) 8) */ /* printk ( KERN_INFO "Dummy net driver (94/05/27 v1.0)\n" ); */ /* Initialize the device structure. */ dev->hard_start_xmit = dummy_xmit; #if DUMMY_STATS dev->priv = kmalloc(sizeof(struct enet_statistics), GFP_KERNEL); memset(dev->priv, 0, sizeof(struct enet_statistics)); dev->get_stats = dummy_get_stats; #endif #ifdef MODULE dev->open = &dummy_open; dev->stop = &dummy_close; #endif /* Fill in the fields of the device structure with ethernet-generic values. */ ether_setup(dev); dev->flags |= IFF_NOARP; return 0; } static int dummy_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct device *dev) { #if DUMMY_STATS struct enet_statistics *stats; #endif if (skb == NULL || dev == NULL) return 0; dev_kfree_skb(skb, FREE_WRITE); #if DUMMY_STATS stats = (struct enet_statistics *)dev->priv; stats->tx_packets++; #endif return 0; } #if DUMMY_STATS static struct enet_statistics * dummy_get_stats(struct device *dev) { struct enet_statistics *stats = (struct enet_statistics*) dev->priv; return stats; } #endif #ifdef MODULE char kernel_version[] = UTS_RELEASE; static int dummy_probe(struct device *dev) { dummy_init(dev); return 0; } static struct device dev_dummy = { "dummy0\0 ", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0x0, 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL, dummy_probe }; int init_module(void) { /* Find a name for this unit */ int ct= 1; while(dev_get(dev_dummy.name)!=NULL && ct<100) { sprintf(dev_dummy.name,"dummy%d",ct); ct++; } if (register_netdev(&dev_dummy) != 0) return -EIO; return 0; } void cleanup_module(void) { if (MOD_IN_USE) printk("dummy: device busy, remove delayed\n"); else { unregister_netdev(&dev_dummy); } } #endif /* MODULE */