[CentOS] loopback network device

Fri Feb 1 12:37:37 UTC 2008
Alain Spineux <aspineux at gmail.com>

On Feb 1, 2008 1:05 PM, Jordi Prats <jprats at cesca.es> wrote:
> Hi all,
> It's possible to create an alias of a device? Something like a device
> loN that all it's traffic is send to ethN, so ethN and loN are equivalent.
>
> It's for a bridged setup, i'm not trying to setup another IP on a device.

Some wireless module create multiple "name" for the same device,
like wifi0, wlan0 and eth0. Then technically this must be possible.
But I don't know any user space tool to do that.

Maybe you are wrong thinking, having multiple "name" for
the same device will help you! What is you main problem ?


>
> Thanks!
> Jordi
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