disc(4)

NAME

disc - software discard network interface

SYNOPSIS

device disc

DESCRIPTION

The disc interface is a software discard mechanism which may
be used for
performance analysis and/or software testing. As with other
network
interfaces, the discard interface must have network address
es assigned
for each address family with which it is to be used. These
addresses may
be set or changed with the SIOCSIFADDR ioctl(2).
Each disc interface is created at runtime using interface
cloning. This
is most easily done with the ifconfig(8) create command or
using the
cloned_interfaces variable in rc.conf(5).

SEE ALSO

inet(4), intro(4)

HISTORY

The disc device appears to have been derived from the lo(4)
device around
the time of 4.4BSD. This manpage was adapted from lo(4) and
first
appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.
BSD May 25, 2002
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