Re: PCI NCR875 Detection breakage?

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Sat, 2 May 1998 11:14:33 +0100 (BST)


Hi David.

> Now, I've never seen this 'whitehole' thing. I suspect it has
> something to do with the DC390F.

> Nope, it's a virtual networking interface used by the routing code
> when a route to a destination goes down and there are a few packets
> left queued to there, in such a situation the whitehole device
> becomes the destination.

Is it like the astronomical white hole then, that spews out stuff that
never went into it in the first place - basically a big source of
network spam 8(

If it just swallows everything that's thrown at it in the same way
that /dev/null does, then the current name is a bit misleading...

Best wishes from Riley.

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