Re: solaris loopback

[Guy Harris <guy () netapp com>]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 01:09:57PM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> i might buy that, except that /dev/hme and /dev/le (and presumably the
> other network device sounding names) all work for snarfing traffic.

Eh?

What does whether they work for snarfing traffic have to do with whether
they're clone devices?

Clone devices are a general mechanism used for things that aren't
network devices or protocols, such as the pseudo-tty master device:

>       crw-rw-rw-   1 root      11,  23 Mar  1  2000 ptmx

> some of them have other purposes that i know of (eg, /dev/ip or
> /dev/tcp) such as using them for controlling ndd (network device
> diddler?) settings.  i think that major number 11 on solaris is just a
> dumping ground for pseudo devices that do "stuff".

Yes.  The "stuff" is called cloning.
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