Re: 2.2.9 networking

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Wed, 26 May 1999 17:55:29 +0400 (MSK DST)


Hello!

> What happened to my loopback interface(it's name is empty)?

One happened that should happen in such case. Set name works
flawlessly only for devices, which respect agreement to reserve
space for name. Drivers loaded at boot time do not. Ethernets loaded
as module reserve 7 characters.

Alexey Kuznetsov

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